Buddhism has had a major effect on who I am and how I think about the world. What I have learned is that I like all religions, but only parts of them.
Grammar schools are public schools without the sodomy.
Learn to trust your instincts. Only something dead goes with the tide. Only something living can go against it.
The dream we are living has absolutely no purpose other than our awakening.
I think airports are places of huge human drama. The more I see of it, the more I am convinced that Heathrow is a secret city, with its own history, folklore and mythology. But what has surprised me is the love the people who work there feel for the place. Everyone seems to think they are plugged into something majestic.
Love is what's left when being in love is gone, okay? It's when you care about someone and you hope they're happy, but you're not under any illusions about them. Maybe that kind of love is not exciting and passionate and all those things that fade with time. All those things that you're so keen on. But in the end it's the only kind of love that really matters.
The tattooed nation will live to regret this voluntary disfigurement.
Everything is humble and positive energy.
I believe in keeping guns out of our inner cities, and that our leaders must say so in the face of the gun manfuacturer's lobby. But I also believe that when a gangbanger shoots indiscriminately into a crowd because he feels someone disrespected him, we have a problem of morality. Not only do we need to punish that man for his crime, but we need to acknowledge that there's a hole in his heart, one that government programs alone may not be able to repair.
I would hate the thought of dying full stop; Ive got to be honest with you.
This is the sphinx of the hearthstone, the little god of domesticity, whose presence turns a house into a home.