I do have a fantasy life in which I can grout bathrooms - but not for a living.

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always. The short-term memory only retains information for three minutes; unless it is committed to paper you can lose an idea for ever.

Sometimes the crowd is the madness - at others it's the absence of the crowd that is.

Always carry a notebook. And I mean always.

When anyone starts out to do something creative - especially if it seems a little unusual - they seek approval, often from those least inclined to give it. But a creative life cannot be sustained by approval, any more than it can be destroyed by criticism - you learn this as you go on.

A party full of 'likeable' people doesn't bear contemplating.