I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

In the light, we shall brightly.

Fenugreek, Tuesday's spice, when the air is green like mosses after rain.

Timing clicking together, finally, pieces falling into place.

A neglect of one's sentimental education early in life could bear the most unfortunate fruit.

Accept your place in the sun as it was originally before the creation of this world... The black man is the first and last, maker and owner of the universe.

Then Henry speaks again. "Did he do it?" I turn to him slowly. "Does it matter?

My hair is my everything: my best friend, my mentor, my moral compass.

To be fulfilled, a prophecy needs lots of flexibility.

The First Amendment was designed to allow for disruption of business as usual. It is not a quiet and subdued amendment or right.

I never single out any one competitor. I treat all my rivals equally.