When I was a little kid I always wanted to be ginger. My best friend was ginger and he was pretty cool.

People said, ‘You must be mad, or on drugs,’ which I found a bit disappointing. What about imagination? It reflects our time that people sooner assume you’re on drugs or mad, rather than free.

No means yes in grasshopper language.

Reality depresses me. I need to find fantasy worlds and escape in them.

It's impossible to be unhappy while wearing a poncho!

All my friends got dogs and cats for Christmas, and I got a starfish called Roy. I used to take him down to the park on a lead.

When I'm 70 I might be a man in a park just wandering around, speaking in tongues with kids throwing bread at me.

Never try and go on a solo mission on your own.

I've had a really weird day, some joker threw bamboo in the penguin enclosure. They all vaulted out. It was a nightmare, it took me all morning to get them back in.

I don't really like jokes in a way. I mean gags are fine but I like weird moments where what you have isn't really a joke, just tiny moments.

I've got it all in here ultra violets, flying saucers, strawberry bootlace come on get involved.

Books are the shells of wisdom, which are split open for the pearls of character.

Once you hear the details of victory, it is hard to distinguish it from a defeat.

We learned in World War II that no single nation holds a monopoly on wisdom, morality or right to power, but that we must fight for the weak and promote democracy.

Beauty Lures the Stranger More Easily into Danger -Septimus Heap

I wish I were either rich enough or poor enough to do a lot of things that are impossible in my present comfortable circumstances.

Our ability to turn off empathy for specific kinds of humans and then use faulty logic to justify our beliefs is messily sociopathic.

When everybody compares me to Mario Lemieux, it's an honor.

Let me tell you, my girl, that I'm swallowing no more of your insults! And if I hear another word from you in disparagement of the Corinthian set it will be very much the worse for you!

Practice meditation. Become a seeker. Walk the path of the seeker. You will get the best of everything the world has to offer.

You have to understand a bit about the poetry of the blues to know where the references are coming from.