What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

Phew. I thought I was going to have to slay a few dragons for you while I was here.” “I’m no damsel in distress, Your Highness. I can take care of myself.

If It's not difficult to get, then it's not for you.

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Botswana had three successive good presidents who served their legal terms, who did well for their countries - three, not one.

I'm completely different from Pietersen. He would turn up to the opening of an envelope

By definition a sequel can't be original. So you've got to figure out what worked the first time around.

Only communist regimes have churned out more jargon than modern business.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

To see wild life you must go forth at wild season.

I hate ingratitude more in a man than lying, vainness, babbling, drunkenness, or any taint of vice whose strong corruption inhabits our frail blood".