If there is innocence on Earth again, I tend to imagine it in more [Henry David]Thoreau sort of terms.

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.

It is an occupational hazard that anyone who has spent her life learning how to lie eventually becomes bad at telling the truth.

One must realize that war is common, and justice strife, and that all things come to be through strife and are (so) ordained.

There you are! Aren't you precious?

She bit me. She worried me like a tigress, when Rochester got the knife from her...She sucked the blood: she said she'd drain my heart." Richard mason

Imagination creates reality.

I'm not gonna be broke, like my mom was broke, my uncles were broke, my sisters didn't have money, my cousins on down.

Careful living and correct training methods aided me a great deal, but I would say straight punching was the foundation of all my success.

Once we came to accept the photographic image as reality, the way to its future simulation was open.

Your background or colour has nothing to do with your progress, but your endowments are the determining factors

I wasn't cocky, just confident; I went to an all black school, a white kid.