One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

You must live life with the full knowledge that your actions will remain. We are creatures of consequence.

Take the time to celebrate stillness and silence and see the joy that the world can bring, simply.

I wanted to make the soundtrack of people's lives.

Somebody give me a banana. I'm playing like a monkey, so I might as well eat like one.

all I wanted to do was sneak out into the night and disappear somewhere, and go and find out what everybody was doing all over the country.

You have to hold yourself accountable for your actions, and that's how we're going to protect the Earth.

I was scared of the dark. Ohhhh, I'd do anything not to have to sleep on my own. I'd get in bed and cover myself with dolls and teddy bears.

For me, photography must be visual, rather than intellectual and ideological.

Wisdom teaches us to do, as well as to talk; and to make our words and actions all of a colour.

I am literally smaller than life. I am an unextraordinary-looking person. I've seen people trying to hide their disappointment when they meet me, and I have to watch them get over it.