M F K Fisher is the dowager queen of writers on browsing and slicing.

Ted Hughes has been appointed poet laureate to succeed Sir John Betjeman, which is a bit like appointing a grim young crow to replace a cuddly old teddy bear.

I'm so good at beginnings, but in the end I always seem to destroy everything, including myself.

What we are, we see the reflection in others.

I don't like credit cards. They make overspending very easy. They can make life a lot more complex and stressful.

Every man who has ever been earnest to preserve his higher or poetic faculties in the best condition, has been particularly inclined to abstain from animal food

I grew up doing live tours and playing in bars, so it was what I love to do.

I think one's musical life should be free and open to new experience in order to keep expanding your mind and horizons.

I have the audacity to believe that peoples everywhere can have three meals a day for their bodies, education and culture for their minds, and dignity, equality and freedom for their spirits.

If you spend more on coffee than on IT security, you will be hacked. What's more, you deserve to be hacked.

The world we live in is a house on fire and the people we love are burning.

People told me I'd have to deal more with losing at this level. I understood that, but I didn't want to start accepting losses.