Meetings, clearly, can take place anywhere, and wouldn't it be nice to see your coworkers lounging on the grass with their shoes off?

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.

Lead competently.Lead productively.Lead skillfully.Lead excellently.

There are many options for how images can aggregate not to nihilism, but to significance, or to meaning.

Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.

I'm a New Yorker. I like the big streets and the big buildings. It's a great place to walk.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

Light at the end of the tunnel? We don't even have a tunnel; we don't even know where the tunnel is.

I've already told you: the only way to a woman's heart is along the path of torment. I know none other as sure.

I think you have to know who you are. Get to know the monster that lives in your soul, dive deep into your soul and explore it.

To be a feminist, you could cut your hair really short. You have to be really angry about something.

Poetry is most just to its divine origin, when it administers the comforts and breathes the thoughts of religion.