The humble latrine, or flush toilet, reduces disease by twice as much as just putting in clean water.

I'd grown up thinking that a [sanitary toilet] was my right, when in fact it's a privilege - 2.5 billion people worldwide have no adequate toilet.

Felixstowe, the United Kingdom's largest port, stops work only for Christmas Day and for crane-toppling Force 9 gales.

Who cares about the men who steered your breakfast cereal through winter storms? How ironic that the more ships have grown in size and consequence, the less space they take up in our imagination.

The more ships have grown in size and consequence, the more their place in our imagination has shrunk.

Art is the reflection of an imaginative mind.

If you expect great things of yourself and demand little of others, you’ll keep resentment far away.

A man is angry at a libel because it is false, but at a satire because it is true.

No controlling legal authority

People are trying so hard to become famous. Johnny Marbles, he tried to throw a pie in Rupert Murdoch's face. What do I gotta do, give Sumner Redstone a wedgie?

If you want greater prosperity in your life, start forming a vacuum to receive it.

I'm a powerful being... a wizard," Corny said. "So don't try anything." "Yes," said the little faery, blinking black eyes rapidly. "No. Try nothing.

Many have paid lip service to philosophy, but these men served it with their whole heart. He tastes nothing who has not tasted for himself.

It got to the point where I started hiding because I didn't want to be photographed. (On living with Robert Mapplethorpe)

Misses! the tale that I relate This lesson seems to carry-- Choose not alone a proper mate, But proper time to marry.