In spite of really intense competition for the job, I'm still my own worst enemy.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

There's all sorts of things I was always meaning to get around to - learning to play the flute, calculating the square root of nought, going mad - but I just didn't have the time.

There is that within a man that drives him ever onwards, just as the power of the seasons drives the roots of flowers into the hard earth; and so he decided, against his better judgment, to open his eyes and find out what was going to happen to him next.

There’s nothing bad about reincarnation per se, it’s basically a very good system, cost-effective and ecologically friendly.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.