[The oyster] accepts algae and detritus in one end - and through this beautiful, glamorous set of stomach organs, out the other end comes cleaner water.

My dream is remaking and reforming a more sustainable, more livable, delicious future.

Officially it was almost spring but someone had forgotten to pass the news on to winter.

The test of pleasure is the memory it leaves behind. (Die Probe Eines Genusses ist Seine Erinnerung.)

I wasn't an only child, but I was the youngest, and no one else in my family played music.

Because we build the worlds we wouldn't mind living in. They contain scary things, problems, but also a sense of rightness that makes them alive and makes us want to live there.

Golf is a game that is played on a five-inch course

Sensible of the importance of Christian piety and virtue to the order and happiness of a state, I cannot but earnestly commend to you every measure for their support and encouragement

Nature is always behind the age

I'm the hardest person to buy a gift for.

How many times do I have to repeat this: my childhood was fantastic.