It is difficult to feel sympathy for these people. It is difficult to regard some bawdy drunk and see them as sick and powerless. It is difficult to suffer the selfishness of a drug addict who will lie to you and steal from you and forgive them and offer them help. Can there be any other disease that renders its victims so unappealing?

Managing wildlife? It's wild! It don't need managing, leave it alone.

When you fall in love you recognise you're not the most important person in the world, and your focus becomes another person.

The only Revolution that can really change the world is the one in your own consciousness, and mine has already begun.

Anyone who's been poor and gets rich is stalked by guilt and fear. Guilt because you know it isn't fair, that life hasn't changed for everyone

Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

I used to binge-eat and make myself throw up. I was a fat kid. Obviously I didn't quite master the bulimia.