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.

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.

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.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

Tweets about the mundane aspects of your life contain something that is vitally important to gaining followers and taking part in discussions: Authenticity.

One may sometimes tell a lie, but the grimace that accompanies it tells the truth.

I was one of those lucky people with only one talent. It is harder for people with many talents to decide what to do.

In the fifties… we were so busy being cool that we didn’t know how to say the word love

We've got the best product pipeline that I've seen in my 25 years at Apple.

It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Why is it that for many persons changing others is so exciting and so relevant, while changing oneself is so boring and irrelevant?

Stop resisting your problems so furiously in your mind. Stop struggling to solve them. If you do that, a great sense of peace followed by a great sense of power will come to you.

I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on."

Most people, if they're doing really well in their career, often don't have the right intimacy with their partner, or they're doing great in their home life, but their finances are a mess.