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

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.

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.

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

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

Refugees have done more for my heart and my spirit than I can ever express in words.

I want to paint a canvasthat will be nothing but harmonious tone.

Think! Think and wonder. Wonder and think. How much water can 55 elephants drink?

You can never get enough of what you don't need to make you happy.

The advance of genetic engineering makes it quite conceivable that we will begin to design our own evolutionary progress.

The only constant factor in life is our feelings and attitudes toward life. One of the few things that we have total control over is our own attitude.

Every time I appoint someone to a vacant position, I make a hundred unhappy and one ungrateful.

It's very rare that you get material that rolls off your tongue.

My heart stopped twice. They had to stab me to drain the blood from my lungs because I was drowning in my own blood.

Any time there's a lot of pressure, it's life and death, you go toward this very dark kind of humor. Soldiers do it. Cops do it.