People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

All people must pray for peace.

This seems to have been St. Augustine's very notion of "memory, " not just nostalgia for some past moment, but connecting past, present, and future in one complete contemplative knowing.

We are all touched by music. Music connects us.

Adversity tests the strength of endurance.

Diversity isn’t a trend

The history of Western science confirms the aphorism that the great menace to progress is not ignorance but the illusion of knowledge.

Exhaustion is the shortest way to equality and fraternity.

I'm always glad to see somebody rethink something rather than reproduce something I did.

The body you're given, the mind you're given, the morality and the hang ups you're given, they're yours. Deal with it.

Grace is when you know you're loved exactly as you are.