Smell is the closest thing human beings have to a time machine.

What we've done, it seems to me, is allow women to get older, but not to age.

Freedom is much more complicated than servitude.

Guilt implanted at a tender age is not easy to destroy. A weed, it sprouts in unexpected places.

One of the great inventions of the twentieth century was the studied, methodical engineering of myth for political ends.

I enjoy the process of writing. The torment comes in getting my bottom on the chair and in front of the typewriter.

A good shepherd has a positive influence on his people through "inward work", i.e. working on them from the inside.

The English mist is always at work like a subtle painter, and London is a vast canvas prepared for the mist to work on.

On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.

You should take some responsibility for the way you present yourself. But you should not be hung up on your looks, whether you are ugly or handsome, because it isn't an achievement.

If thou suffer injustice, console thyself; the true unhappiness is in doing it.

I'm very upfront and very honest. I don't let a bunch of stuff fester and boil over.

Shooting is very challenging because 10 metre air rifle you have different rules, short gun you have different rules.

I was terribly gawky, too goofy to become a high-kicking cheerleader, with stringy brown hair and bad posture. Definitely nobody noticeable!

I always thought a yard was three feet, then I started mowing the lawn.

I want to see your tattoos." "You do, huh?