My parents were very supportive and always encouraged us. My father was a gentle, nice man. My mother was quite a colourful character and a keen reader who encouraged me to write.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

Be content with who you are and where you are, and do whatever you can do to bring to others such contentment, and joy, and understanding that you have managed to find yourself.

There is room in history for all of us.

Manners are the basic building blocks of civil society.

I see no point in being despondent. We might as well enjoy ourselves during our brief tenure of this life.

How many of us are happy to be exactly where we are at any moment?...only the completely happy think that they are in the correct place.

Talking about pumpkins doesn't make them grow.

We think the world is ours forever, but we are little more than squatters.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

A life without stories would be no life at all. And stories bound us, did they not, one to another, the living to the dead, people to animals, people to the land?

Take me to the land of lovers where flowers bloom with love, birds sing with love, and hearts long for hearts.

An apology given just to appease one's conscience is self-serving and better left unspoken!

i was ok in the seaput me back

It may sound cliché, but when you feel beautiful and strong on the inside, it shows on the outside.

Tomorrow's sun is on it's way - a relentless sun, inscrutable like life.

Knowledge is finite. Wonder is infinite.

I've been coming back like a rubber ball for years.

Folks always seemed to think that as long as they didn't know about something bad, it wasn't happening, so whoever told them actually caused it to be true.

Although they posses enough, and more than enough still they yearn for more.

There's a snake hidden in the grass.