We are like poor people, who have nothing but each other, and are happy.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

I read. The more you read, the more the world opens up to you... and the happier you are and more comforted you feel. It's up to you. No you is educated who cannot educate himself.

Read what you find interesting, and then follow your interests. You'll find that in doing so you always generate enough to illuminate the next step.

Nobody steals books except kleptomaniacs and university students. In most places you can leave a book on the street and come back for in the next day.

In America, Fredericka, they don't really have trains for people. The trains here are used mainly to transport pigs, television sets, and fruit.

I was brought up, ' Freddy informed him, 'not to suffer anxiety about decisive initiative of all types.

...I like stories very much, ” the priest said. “They help me understand myself better.

Sufi Teachers are not, as you might hope, people who make you feel peace and harmony.

Whether it's the best of times or the worst of times it's the only time we've got.

Walt Whitman, he who laid end to end words never seen in each other's company before outside of a dictionary.

All children are essentially criminal.

It's not name dropping, but not many people can say, like me, that they spent the day with the likes of Francis Bacon or that boring drunk Dylan Thomas. You don't forget things like that.

You're on CNN. The show that leads into me is puppets making crank phone calls. What is wrong with you?

I'm not so interested in being indie just for the sake of being indie.

It costs nothing to say something kind. Even less to shut up altogether.

Writing is rewriting what you have rewritten.