I think it's good to look at how people lived before, and then take the best bits of that culture and try to mix it in with your own.

The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

If you didn't love him, this never would have happened. But you did. And accepting that love and everything that followed it is part of letting it go.

Income from labor [in the United States] is about as unequally distributed as has ever been observed anywhere.

Break every boundary with your inner passion and you will get there successfully. Resist every chance to give up... Believe you can... Rise up after every fall... Be willing to win!

Sam was waiting for her, his gaze sweeping over her. "Looks great." "I look like a geek, " Lucy said. "I smell like a brewery. And I need a bra.""My dream date.

I have always thought of Walt Disney as my second father.

Partisan politics has no place in the classroom.

There's nothing that annoys me more than people being horrible to my mates.

You can learn a line from a win and a book from a defeat.

They haven't made love for years but sleep holding hands

Cooking is revolution and creation.