I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.

If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.

We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

Those who talk more about others' wrongs are actually Perilous, Be Careful.

It's best to be ruthless with the past.

What is this? It's music to get a brain seizure by.

Vengeance taken will often tear the heart and torment the conscience.

Marches work, rallies work, civil disobedience works, direct action works, voting works, writing letters works, speaking to churches and schools works, rioting works.

We're fighting internal struggles, I am the cancer for my own cure.

In these days, a man who says a thing cannot be done is quite apt to be interrupted by some idiot doing it.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

And the dreams that you dare to dream really do come true.

Every sect is a moral check on its neighbour. Competition is as wholesome in religion as in commerce.