The Western world, and the UK in particular, is drowning in a sea of its own blubber.

Paris is a place in which we can forget ourselves, reinvent, expunge the dead weight of our past.

The sight of one old man kneeling on all fours in front of me assembling a picnic table was enough to put all thoughts of lunch out of my head, possibly for life.

Childbirth is more admirable than conquest, more amazing than self-defense, and as courageous as either one.

Utopia was here at last: its novelty had not yet been assailed by the supreme enemy of a ll Utopias - boredom.

Take the best action toward your most important goal right now.

A man, so to speak, who is not able to bow to his own conscience every morning is hardly in a condition to respectfully salute the world at any other time of the day.

I was not a beater of children and as a consequence I've always been, I think, very agreeable and co-operative.

Homesickness for the gutter.

When our inner vision opens, our horizons expand.

I prefer to give a dollar to a thousand people.

Amateurs study tactics; professionals study logistics.

My brand of fantasy is completely devoid of the traditional notions of magic as ritual. Instead I see the fantastic as a meta-layer of existence beyond the real world.