On the one hand, we're constantly told about recycling and cutting back, and on the other hand we have to buy the next gadget that comes along three weeks after the last one you bought. It's absolutely insane. We've been suckered into buying and buying and upgrading and upgrading. We're being given two very different mantras at the moment, I think.

I look like the man in the moon.

I would wear a full-length cape if I could get away with it - I do love a good swirl in a fog.

Why does everyone have to pretend to be stupid and not know long words?

True heroics, obviously, is not the absence of fear, but having that fear and doing something anyway.

Like with anything, good writing suggest itself pretty strongly.

It's a bit like a fledgeling duck, finding your flippers.