We all operate in two contrasting modes, which might be called open and closed. The open mode is more relaxed, more receptive, more exploratory, more democratic, more playful and more humorous. The closed mode is the tighter, more rigid, more hierarchical, more tunnel-visioned. Most people, unfortunately spend most of their time in the closed mode.

If you want to know who your friends are, have a major failure.

The Americans all love 'The Holy Grail', and the English all love 'Life Of Brian', and I'm afraid on this one, I side with the English.

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

I'm very odd 'cause I think there's more than just a materialist planet, a materialist, reductionist planet.

I don't want to have to start being unselfish again. The great thing about being on your own is you do what you damned well like.