I love all this stuff. I look at all the gadgets that come out and I think, ‘Oh, this fix works for me. But the rest don’t.’ I’m not genuflecting in front of the God of Newness.

The great benefit of slowing down is reclaiming the time and tranquility to make meaningful connections--with people, with culture, with work, with nature, with our own bodies and minds

By slowing down at the right moments, people find that they do everything better: They eat better; they make love better; they exercise better; they work better; they live better.

Fast isn't turning us into Masters of the Universe, It's turning us into Cheech and Chong.

The time has come to challenge our obsession with doing everything more quickly.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

I could be working 300 hours a week. I just say no. The power of slow is the power of no. I can’t go to every party I get invited to. I can’t do every work thing.

I always felt through writing that I wanted to rotate the world slightly.

Aficionados of Slow design and Slow fashion use ethical and green materials to make objects - furniture, clothes, jewellery - that lift the spirit and last a lifetime rather than one catwalk season.

From the mind which thinks to die, let my soul sleep tonight.

The world is an asylum where the inmates keep the warders in their place.

To regard the imagination as metaphysics is to think of it as part of life, and to think of it as part of life is to realize the extent of artifice. We live in the mind.

The centre of the tragedy, therefore, may be said with equal truth to lie in action issuing from character, or in character issuing in action.

I was realizing, for the first time, that everything goes on, turns gray, is ruined in the living. That there is no end to our story until death comes and the body decays.

Human beings are not designed to be alone. None of God's creatures are.

If I'm going to do something, I'm going to do it as best I can. I'm going to give it everything.

A critic is a man who expects miracles.

I love the house that I've been living in for over 40 years. I really am a homebody and I still love to play golf.

It is freezing fit to split a stone.