If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.

The thing I think about is that once you've done it, you then start to think about what you're going to do next. It's much easier to follow something that's not been as successful as this.

At eighty things do not occur; they recur.

We started off trying to set up a small anarchist community, but people wouldn't obey the rules.

I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.

I dont know whether you've ever looked into a miner's eyes for any length of time, that is. Because it is the loveliest blue you've ever seen. I think perhaps that's why I live in Ibiza, because the blue of the Mediterranean, you see, reminds me of the blue of the eyes of those Doncaster miners.

Cloisters, ancient libraries ... I was confusing learning with the smell of cold stone.