...and his eyes had that splendid innocence, that opaque blue candour of the satanically fallen. ~ The French Lieutenant’s Woman

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

The Only Way to Do Great Work is To Love What You Do

I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

I build community. However, I do it wearing a number of hats.

I want to tell you how much I miss my mother. Bits of her are still there. I miss her most when I'm sitting across from her.

Peace is not achievable as a direct object of purposeful behaviour.

Think big, think fast, think ahead. Ideas are no one's monopoly.

Did I do anything wrong today," he said, "or has the world always been like this and I've been too wrapped up in myself to notice?

He who considers himself a paragon of wisdom is sure to commit some superlatively stupid act.

God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.

Andy Johnson was literally banjoed out of the game