You might call this innocence. I had a sense of another world that had not been spoken of to me.

I grew up with tarot cards and the reading of tea leaves.

My favourite tea is lapsang souchong.

I'm more a dog person than a cat person.

I grew up in North Devon, by the sea, and feel a special affinity for the landscape there, despite a lack of actual ancestry.

I was born in the seventies, age of bad haircuts and grainy colour photos.

I've never been baptised.

[My muse] is, in fact, a woman of the world, and precisely because of this, hopes that a diversity of cultures will endure, and that one bland monoculture does not swamp everything.

If we do want to do that [ colonise space to survive, ], then vacuous materialism is not going to be enough for us.

If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

Some Buddhists, however, never seem to get past the void, and I suppose I view this as a kind of Buddhist 'Old Testament' that I don't especially like.

The only credential the city asked was the boldness to dream. For those who did, it unlocked its gates and its treasures, not caring who they were or where they came from.

For capitalism to develop, customary ties between people and the land must be severed, and communal obligations among people disrupted.

To put an arrogant 'famous' singer in her place: pretend to be deaf.

The one charm about marriage is that it makes a life of deception absolutely necessary for both parties.

People look at the statue of liberty and they see a proud symbol. Donald Trump looks at the statue of liberty and sees a four.

If parents had children who were good sleepers, they assumed this was due to their good parenting, not good luck.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

So much of adolescence is an ill-defined dying, An intolerable waiting, A longing for another place and time, Another condition.

Sometimes we put so much pressure on ourselves with any kind of job we have that we kind of forget that we do this because it's supposed to be fun because we love it.