This is England, " he explained. "Tell someone it's a procedure, and they'll believe you. The pointless procedure is one of our great natural resources.

English rain feels obligatory, like paperwork. It dampens already damn days and slicks the stones.

Shame is like melting. You can actually feel your muscles sag and drop, as if your body is preparing you to crawl, or possibly ooze, to the nearest exit.

If you want to find something with an equation, you must start thinking like a person who have it.

When you give your items away, don’t keep the excess of your pride.

Sometomes that's all people ever really need. Just to know.

Vices are their own punishment

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die!

It is quite rare to find people who are really dedicated to a level of excellence. Most of us are really quite lazy most of the time.

My favorite fur is wild acrylic.

“I will admit, I've never had a student offer himself up for a vicious beating in order to prove he's worth my time.” “This was nothing... Once I jumped off a roof.”

The trouble is, I'm a terrible PR person.

Steadfast Seas and MountainsThe lofty mountains and the seas, Being mountains, being seas, Both exist and are real. But frail as flowers are the lives of men, Passing phantoms of this world.