He's already tan, and leaning on the rail in his yellow linen shirt, with the pure glory of Venice racing behind him, I think he looks like someone I'd like to run off with, if I already hadn't.

He spun out enough toilet paper to vandalize a house and carefully cleaned the seat.

Love is the only way to go toward happiness.

Do you know what the difference is between knowing a bird and knowing about a bird?

When we find out an Idea, by whose Intervention we discover the Connexion of two others, this is a Revelation from God to us, by the voice of Reason.

We feel responsibility but we never let ourselves feel connectedness.

It's not a job but a condition.(Alan Garner on writing)

I'm actually most comfortable when I'm in a bikini, running around on the beach, like, no makeup. It's really free-feeling, whereas I'm always having to get dressed up and putting makeup on.

A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.

The thing about the 600 words, I mean some day, you can do a very, very, very hard day's work and not write a word, just revising, or you would scribble a few words.

Anything that I want, I must also be ok with not having, otherwise it's idolatry.