Humanity was drawn to turmoil and self-destruction as inevitably as the earth was drawn to complete its annual revolution of the sun.

The functions of intellect are insufficient without courage, love, friendship, compassion and empathy.

The whisper of the dusk is night shedding its husk.

Where there is cake, there is hope. And there is always cake.

Petting, scratching, and cuddling a dog could be as soothing to the mind and heart as deep meditation and almost as good for the soul as prayer.

Nothing is worse than being alone on the evening of the day when one's cow has exploded.

Only once in a generation does anything as fresh as a vomiting detective come along.

The hands of every clock are shears, trimming us away scrap by scrap, and every time piece with a digital readout blinks us towards implosion.

Most people tend to think the best of those who are blessed with beauty; we have difficulty imagining that physical perfection can conceal twisted emotions or a damaged mind.

Any drunk who has tried to put his car where a lamppost stands is a self-educated physicist.

Given my heritage and the ordeal of my childhood, I sometimes wonder why I myself am not insane. Maybe I am.

But Alfanhui didn't want to abuse the rosemary, because one shouldn't tell a lot in one day, since the stories lose their strength.

Life is best when you are in love.

My persona is less miserable than a lot of contemporary poetry speakers are.

If you become aware of a public self, you're in danger of becoming a very artificial person.

I love doing serious movies for adults.

Perception is a selective act of attention and interpretation.

You will never change your life until you change something you do daily. The secret of your success is found in your daily routine.

The Amazon is still burning; we just don't hear the smoke detectors anymore.

We British play an important role in Europe, even if we have a traditional and historical ambivalence towards the continent.

Order is a prerequisite of survival; therefore the impulse to produce orderly arrangements is inbred by evolution.