I did not understand the differences between Catholic and Protestant until I was an adult.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

To live in a world where men do not love, where they cheat and are callous, is to sink into a preoccupation with death, and to see the futility of anything except virtue.

One doesn't have a sense of humor. It has you.

When I was young I found out that the big toe always ends up making a hole in a sock. So I stopped wearing socks.

Fame does different things to different people. For some people it makes them a better person.

Until the Donkey tried to clear The Fence, he thought himself a Deer.

Barack Obama's campaign of empty self-contradictory promises has apparently hoodwinked the state of Wyoming.

Youth is thy gift, - the youth that baffles Time.

Rock Against Drugs, what a name. Somebody was high when they came up with that title. It's like Christians Against Christ. Rock created drugs.

If you work for a team, you have a different view, if you own a team you have a radically different view.

I never gave up on country music because I knew what I was doing was not that bad.