I am capable of being idle.

We don't forget.... Our heads may be small, but they are as full of memories as the sky may sometimes be full of swarming bees, thousands and thousands of memories, of smells, of places, of little things that happened to us and which came back, unexpectedly, to remind us who we are.

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

The telling of a story, like virtually everything in this life, was always made all the easier by a cup of tea.

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.

There are old mycologists and there are bold mycologists, but there are no old, bold mycologists.

Ritual is a terribly important, binding cement in a society. If we abandon formality and rituals, we're actually weakening the relationships that exist between people that bind.