I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

It's an unnerving thought that we may be the living universe's supreme achievement and its worst nightmare simultaneously.

Most big companies don't like you very much, except hotels, airlines and Microsoft, which don't like you at all.

My first rule of consumerism is never to buy anything you can't make your children carry.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

Four times I was honked at for having the temerity to proceed through town without the benefit of metal.

Life just wants to be; but it doesn't want to be much.