It was as if he grew his hair long and smoked cigarettes because he liked to, not because he liked being seen to. This was dangerously subversive.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

More than the disappearing trees and roses, it’s the human tendency to suppress the ‘Natural Voice’ of the ‘Nature’s Man’ which is sorrowful.

Peace has gone on too long. Something inside me says that trouble such as these shores have never known is headed our way.

Statism is a mental disorder, much akin to Stockholm Syndrome.

Just imagine you are dying tomorrow. Everyday. You will be much kinder to the world, there will be more love in you. That way.

Hearty laughter is a good way to jog internally without having to go outdoors.

For nobody else, gave me thrill-with all your faults, I love you still. It had to be you, wonderful you, it had to be you.

I can't sing anything other than country!

The river of my title is a river of DNA, a river of information, not a river of bones and tissues

Self-righteousness is the devil's masterpiece to make us think well of ourselves.

If you going to live by a certain code - as Bob Dylan said, you gotta serve somebody.