Paperwork is the embalming fluid of bureaucracy, maintaining an appearance of life where none exists.

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

Every problem can be solved, you just have to work hard enough, or sometimes be lucky enough to find the solution.

Your day is your week is your month is your year.

The high that I got from helping people and being around the love was better than any other high I've gotten from any drug

Our minds are a lot like the sea...you wake up some days and its rough and stormy.

That'd be walking into dangerous territory," he says, getting up from the sofa. "Luke is not a morning person.

You are inferior to no one. others may treat you that way, but that is their problem. You are above all of this.

I know I can walk through the world, along the shore or under the trees, with my mind filled with things of little importance, in full self-attendance. A condition I can't really call being alive.

I like writing for children. It seems to me that most people underestimate their understanding and the strength of their feelings and in my books for them I try to put this right.

I always keep a supply of stimulant handy in case I see a snake, which I also keep handy.