Contrary to what the politicians and religious leaders would like us to believe, the world won't be made safer by creating barriers between people.

I've never particularly liked travelling with large groups or being told where to go by somebody else. I prefer to find out for myself.

I cut down trees, I skip and jump, I like to press wild flowers. I put on women's clothing and hang around in bars.

My parents have been married forty-two years. I wonder how many of those were happy.

All I ask of food is that it doesn't harm me.

I know that we shall meet problems along the way, but I'd far rather see for myself what's going on in the world outside, than rely on newspapers, television, politicians and religious leaders to tell me what I should be thinking.

As I work in the afternoon on committing to paper some of my morning's thoughts, I find myself just about to close on the knotty question of whether or not I believe in God. In fact I am about to type, 'I do not believe in God', when the sky goes black as ink, there is a thunderclap and a huge crash of thunder and a downpour of epic proportions. I never do complete the sentence.