I also quite like to be recognized by children; I find it sweet.

Fear travels fast. Love travels a little more slowly. Rationale takes a little more consideration.

Life is not a theme park, and if it is, the theme is death.

The best thing you can do is fall in love. My life has been changed by falling in love.

If you're a drug addict, then you've always got drugs, so you're a criminal. So you're gonna get into problems.

The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives.

Say I feel all sad and self-indulgent, then get stung by a wasp, my misery feels quite abstract and I long just to be in spiritual pain once more - 'damn you tiny assassin, clad in yellow and black, how I crave my former innocence where melancholy was my only trial'.