White pudding and eggs and sausages and cups of tea! How simple and beautiful was life after all!

People trample over flowers, yet only to embrace a cactus.

Shut your eyes and see.

Absence, the highest form of presence.

Mistakes are the portals of discovery.

There is not past, no future; everything flows in an eternal present.

Your mind will give back to you exactly what you put into it.

The supreme question about a work of art is out of how deep a life does it spring.

Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home.

I am tomorrow, or some future day, what I establish today. I am today what I established yesterday or some previous day.

All Moanday, Tearday, Wailsday, Thumpsday, Frightday, Shatterday.

In the grand timeline of life, two years is nothing. Here she is, her dream resurrected. Alive and soon to be kicking in fact. Dead isn't always dead.

We like security: we like the pope to be infallible in matters of faith, and grave doctors to be so in moral questions so that we can feel reassured.

As we're growing closer to God, I ask people to decide when God wants them to stay planted exactly where they are.

I find more and more that I am a man of the 1920s. I still expect something exciting. Drinks, animated conversation, gaiety: the uninhibited exchange of ideas.

I was an only child, and Mother was always right with me all my life. I used to get very angry at her when I was growing up-it's a natural thing.

As an entrepreneur, don't follow the crowd; let them follow you.

Affection is like the noonday sun; it does not need the presence of another to be manifest.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

I don't sit around and read papers about myself. If I see myself on TV, if I don't like it, I change the channel.

Even after you've won fame and fortune, every time you write you've got to write, there's no shortcut, you have to start your career all over again.