It's odd how different a house feels when one is alone in it. It makes it easier to think rather private thoughts.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

Now is the only time you have. Change is happening. Give up your desire to control the world

Do you know what the greatest test is? Do you still get excited about what you do when you get up in the morning?

Minds ripen at very different ages.

...as bad as it is here, it's better than being somewhere else." -Chris Rose, regarding life in Post-Katrina New Orleans

The envious pine at others' success; no greater punishment than envy was devised by Sicilian tyrants.

When I meet a fan, I always try to learn something about that fan.

I find the universe so staggering that I just don't have any faith in my ability to grasp it.

An imaginative adventure does not enjoy the same corsets as reportage.

When everybody has access to an avalanche of information, becoming a master thinker is very important in your life-long security.

The scariest, most terrifying thing that I fear? Yes. My Imagination. I thought you were going to say "Fear, itself." Then you have a small imagination.