If he looks at me like that again Dottie will need a bucket and mop to get me back to my room.

I can also speak to small woodland creatures, ” he grins at me.

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them

I refuse to behave fraudulently, as if I was anything else but African.

You can either follow your dreams with determination and persistence until they become true, or you can be blown by the winds of fate - were anything can happen.

Only my current situation has enabled me to accomplish the expensive task of demonstrating that the preferred sustenance of painting is painting.

I'm an urban person who loves living in the country.

In places this book is a little over-written, because Mr Blunden is no more able to resist a quotation than some people are to refuse a drink.

In retrospect it always seems to work out that you can look back on something that was a disaster and find some gems in there.

Arabs respect only the language of force.

I aim to be pretty - I gave up dressing to be sexy in the eighties.

Nothing is as boundary dissolving, except for psychedelic compounds, as travel. Travel is up there.