Beauty, pleasure, freedom and plenty of sleep: these are the hallmarks of a successful idler's break. Travel should not be hard work.

The terrible thing about the internet and Amazon is that they take the magic and happy chaos out of book shopping. The internet might give you what you want, but it won't give you what you need.

The art of living is the art of bringing dreams and reality together.

When you go for a walk, take seeds with you, poppies, rainbow chard, rocket. Plant them among the weeds in patches of wasteland. See what happens.

In a world where you are constantly asked to be 'committed,' it is liberating to give yourself the license to be a dilettante. Commit to nothing. Try everything.

There is nothing so perfect as pinball and a pint at 11 a.m.

My idea of childcare at festivals is to sit at a trestle table with an ale while the kids run around and make up their own games.

I count it as a certainty that in paradise, everyone naps.

When the going gets tough, the tough take a nap.

Pain will never leave us. Instead of putting energy into destroying pain, we need to put energy into creating pleasure.

Guilt is also a way for us to express to others that we are a person of good conscience.

Life’s challenges are inevitable. We have to prepare mentally by renewing our mind with inspiration daily to be able to cope when the situation arise.

Love is likely when you appreciate someone in every moments of your heartbeat and expecting nothing in return. nothing at all.

There are so many things to say

Leave it to you to find a legal way to do something illegal

I wish I were a rock, ' he said, and he became a rock.

The one permanent emotion of the inferior man is fear-fear of the unknown the complex the inexplicable. What he wants beyond everything else is safety.

I think that's all you can hope for as an actor when you read a script; that after the first thirty pages it has some meaning to it.

The strongest human instinct is to impart information, the second strongest is to resist it.

I do have a stylist who helps me shop, because I don't have time to shop.

The ugly can be beautiful. The pretty, never.