Despite all the variables and advise, like love and marriage it seemed to me that learning to cast ought to be a lot easier than it was.

And connected I had been. When the fish changed directions, I felt it. when it slowed or sped up, I felt that too. It's such a raw thing, this shared existence with a piece of bucking biomass.

More generally, as I shall repeat in Chapter 8, one of the truly bad effects of religion is that it teaches us that it is a virtue to be satisfied with not understanding.

Execute like there's no tomorrow, strategize like there will be.

Believe me... I've made a career out of being the right thing in the wrong space and the wrong thing in the right space. That's one thing... I really do know about.

But what I think my emphasis is, is on the fact that I like music a lot.

The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

Jericho Barrons just told me he loves me.

But remember when I moved in you And the holy dove was moving too And every breath we drew was Hallelujah.

Those single-track military minds never think to ask their cleaning staff for help in giant lethal marauding creature matters.

I don't feel like me unless I have my hair shaved. So even when I'm an old lady, I'm going to have it.