Life is about recapturing lost freedoms.

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.

Intentional leadership ads value and truth to people.

if you don't believe, nothing ever happens at all.

Strong jealousy in a beautiful love is the autumn in the middle of a hot summer!

Love ... was part imagination, its web spun as much in the dark lonely separated evenings of longing as in the shared times together.

I've always believed in my talent. And I've always had more guts than talent.

To be converted to faith in Jesus Christ is to return to the worship of the true God, and to dethrone all rivals to his authority.

only a thin partition separates the psychically normal from the diseased.

The true Filipino is a decolonized Filipino.

You are only young once. At the time it seems endless, and is gone in a flash; and then for a very long time you are old.

Sacrificing the earth for paradise is giving up the substance for the shadow.