I started to send my work to journals when I was 26, which was just a question of when I got the courage up. They were mostly journals I had been reading for the previous six or seven years.

Travel works best when you're forced to come to terms with the place you're in.

Paul Theroux

I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spend all your time thinking about them

Mark Haddon

The concept of portraying evil and then destroying it - I know this is considered mainstream, but I think it is rotten. This idea that whenever something evil happens someone particular can be blamed and punished for it, in life and in politics is hopeless.

Hayao Miyazaki

No lying knight or lying priest ever prospered in any age, but especially not in the dark ones. Men prospered then only in following an openly declared purpose, and preaching candidly beloved and trusted creeds.

John Ruskin

The truth may be out there, but the lies are inside your head.

Terry Pratchett

Effort is only effort when it begins to hurt.

Jos

The best definition of faith that I know is that it is reason grown courageous. Moreover, that is all that Christ ever asked us for, and the reason he asked us for that was because he wants to use us. He needs our help. It is almost impossible to believe it. But God Almighty wants our help, so Christ tells us.

Sir Wilfred T. Grenfell

I remember my youth and the feeling that will never come back any more --the feeling that I could last for ever, outlast the sea, the earth, and all men; the deceitful feeling that lures us on to joys, to perils, to love, to vain effort --to death; the triumphant conviction of strength, the heat of life in the handful of dust, the glow in the heart that with every year grows dim, grows cold, grows small, and expires --and expires, too soon, too soon --before life itself.

Joseph Conrad

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants

Neil Gaiman

Remember the poor - it costs nothing

Mark Twain

I don't regard Brecht as a man of iron-gray purpose and intellect, I think he is a theatrical whore of the first quality.

Sir Peter Hall

Success is a process, a quality of mind and way of being, an outgoing affirmation of life.

Alex Noble