You can't get a suit of armour and a rubber chicken just like that. You have to plan ahead.

One of the difficult things of so much travelling is to say goodbye.

I mistrust total competence. I've always felt life is a series of small disasters we try to get through.

The trouble with travelling back later on is that you can never repeat the same experience.

The Buddhist version of poverty is a situation where you have nothing to contribute.

It was a strange feeling going into a church I did not know for a service that I did not really believe in, but once inside I couldn't help a feeling of warmth and security. Outside there were wars and road accidents and murders, striptease clubs and battered babies and frayed tempers and unhappy marriages and people contemplating suicide and bad jokes, but once in St. Martin's there was peace. Surely people go to church not to involve themselves in the world's problems but to escape from them.

I am certainly more interested in interviewing than being interviewed. Sometimes you find yourself attacked from the start.