Travel is a state of mind. It has nothing to do with existence or the exotic. It is almost always an inner experience.

The only deadline that concerns me is the day that I die and whether or not I had loved enough while I was here.

People whose own dreams aren't completed, help others to accomplish their dreams.

More modern poetry is written than read.

that Englishman who came to challenge me three or four months ago, and whom I killed to stop him bothering me

Of course most people underestimate the warrior characteristics of the Anglo-Saxon and Norman peoples anyway. It takes a heap of piety to keep a Viking from wanting to go sack a city.

Social media has a way of changing your mood. I can see a picture of my ex, and it ruins my day.

Environmental damage such as graffiti, fly-posting and general littering is a menace that is becoming all too prevalent, not just in inner cities but in many communities - urban and rural.

I've come to believe that whoever I am didn't start on December 14, 1946, and isn't going to end on whatever that mysterious date is in the future

Set your ideal as near to perfection as your imagination is capable of forming the conception.

Sound judgment is the ground of writing well.