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

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

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

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.

I seemed to recall some words from an old Zen master, something like, "My Zen cuts down mountains." My rejection of Buddhism was a cutting down of mountains; that is precisely how it felt to me.

The heart also knows things, and so does the imagination. Thank God. If not for heart and imagination, the world of fiction would be a pretty seedy place. It might not even exist at all.

I’m fighting my way into existence, and I will keep doing so until the end of time.

The beginning seems to be more than half of the whole.

I always wanted to work with Betty White, because she is one of my heroes of all time, and I just love her.

Some of the secret joys of living are not found by rushing from point A to point B, but by inventing some imaginary letters along the way.

Words matter, and the right words matter most of all. In the end they're all that remain of us.

I was gonna put him on the bus...I got tired of him talking, it was time for him to go home.

Accomplishment comes from making positive efforts, even in the face of negative circumstances.

Seek out strategic alliances; they are essential to growth and provide resistance to bigger competition.

Coaches aren't concentrating enough of the technical part of this game and that could lead to injuries.