Self-pity does not appreciate pedantry.

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?

When you are not full of the Holy Spirit, you easily cower in fear and lack a stand on truth

Look after your body and your body will look after you

It is only with distance that we are able to turn our powers of observation on ourselves, thus fashioning stories in which we are characters.

Night is torment. That is why people go to sleep. To avoid clear sight and torment.

Most important to me is being able to release music and have an astounding relationship with whoever would be distributing the music.

of all the follies that we can commit, the greatest is to hesitate.

Theres a lot of American kids think their food comes from the grocery store and the concept of seasonality has no meaning to them whatsoever.

I was never, ever interested in becoming a businessman or an entrepreneur. If I was a businessman, or saw myself as a businessman, I would have never gone into the airline business.

Wikipedia gets a lot of things wrong.

The climate is changing. This year we have come to understand this when we faced events that resulted in fires.