We don't inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.

The truth about the world, he said, is that anything is possible. Had you not seen it all from birth and thereby bled it of its strangeness it would appear to you for what it is, a hat trick in a medicine show, a fevered dream, a trance bepopulate with chimeras having neither analogue nor precedent, an itinerant carnival, a migratory tentshow whose ultimate destination after many a pitch in many a mudded field is unspeakable and calamitous beyond reckoning.

Overcome the notion that you must be regular. It robs you of the chance to be extraordinary.

Quality ingredients are the foundation of great baking; never compromise on them.

The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.

We are all waiting for something, even if we don’t know what it is.