Wisdom requires not only the investigation of many things, but contemplation of the mystery.

In truth, ayahuasca is the television of the forest.

.....there are approximately 125 billion miles of DNA in a human body -- your personal DNA is long enough to wrap around the earth 5 million times.

The global network of DNA-based life emits ultra-weak radio waves, which are currently at the limit of measurement, but which we can nonetheless perceive...in hallucinations and dreams.

What if it were true that nature speaks in signs and that the secret to understanding its language consists in noticing similarities in shape or in form?

Even poison has an expiry date.

Tell me of your Willoughbys, Heathcliffs and Wickhams in literature and I will tell you I met them all.

Everything you know gained from experience

I miss the comedy of the '70s and '80s, like 'Only Fools And Horses' and 'Fawlty Towers,' so I'm glad I'm put in that category.

Railway termini are our gates to the glorious and the unknown

Write in the kitchen, lock yourself up in the bathroom. Write on the bus or the welfare line, on the job or during meals.

I was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.

They misspelled 'party.' How evil genius can they be?

Complaining does not work as a strategy.

Ideology is a specious way of relating to the world. It offers human beings the illusion of an identity, of dignity, and of morality while making it easier for them to part with them.