There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

...Morning takes youagain to the placeof no return...I don’t have the timeto tell you, how much I wantyou to be here…

I wonder how long it will take for me to feel as adult inside as I look outside.

Grief takes many forms, including the absence of grief

My desires sprang forth as a mighty sun - all embracing - associating in the form - vortex, to enjoy ALL consciousness

From 1999 to 2003 was the peak of equipment in ski racing. Since then, it's all gone in the wrong direction.

And when I say craziest, I mean, like, I want to do like Olympic-level things.

Mathematics is a field which has often been compared with chess, but differs from the latter in that it is only one's best moments that count and not one's worst.

I think the game is to bear the unbearable with a giggle. With your heart breaking. And then do what you do.

It's necessary to have an energy that carries you forward. You need the will to live, to have a great curiosity. To look for the best in life, to find new interests.

I believe that all taxes are bad.