Adventures are all very well in their place, but there's a lot to be said for regular meals and freedom from pain.

It has been said that civilization is twenty-four hours and two meals away from barbarism.

Mirrors,' she said, 'are never to be trusted.

Sometimes I think that ideas float through the atmosphere like huge squishy pumpkins, waiting for heads to drop on.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

You can take for granted that people know more or less what a street, a shop, a beach, a sky, an oak tree look like. Tell them what makes this one different.

One thing that's interesting to me is how we as humans seem to be losing our ability to stand still and be alone with our thoughts. If you want to, you have to arrange it now. You have to go off where there's no WiFi and leave your equipment behind, but still have some sort of GPS tracking to make sure you don't get lost or die.