The woman sees, I suppose, and the man does not.

I think if anything I am perhaps more inclined than most people are to be polite and considerate because I am aware that human relationships are innately fragile and kind of dangerous.

It's the ordinary things that seem important to me.

I don't use photographs because photographs don't give me the kind of information I need.

My painting occurs when I think of two disparate elements.

I don’t intend to be menacing, but I do think of life as being essentially dangerous. We never know what’s going to happen from one day to the next.

Anxiety is the normality of our age.

I don't think there's such a thing as an evil animal.

Make the most of what you have and keep your standards high. Never settle for anything less than you deserve or are capable of achieving.

There are no crash courses on ‘enlightenment’, you only crash in a course like that!!!!

The good news about me is that my friends and social network is entirely independent of politics.

Wisdom, Niko thought as he leaned his cheek against his long-handled rake, cannot be had without price.

There is no folly of which a man who is not a fool cannot get rid except vanity; of this nothing cures a man except experience of its bad consequences, if indeed anything can cure it.

So I'll put on my bob marley tape And practice what I preach Get jah lost in the reggae mon As I walk along the beach

Thinking like others is ok for things that are not important to you.

My message is not wholly understood; only poets understand it.

People are only mean when they are threatened.

Whether Theresa May had stabbed has stabbed the former Mayor of London in the back and Michael Gove had stabbed him in the front. That's about it. It makes House of Cards look like Teletubbies.