"Stand-up comedy and poverty. Those were my two main endeavors."

“It is only to the gardener that time is a friend, giving each year more than he steals.”

Source : Beverley Nichols (2009). “Rhapsody in Green: The Garden Wit and Wisdom of Beverley Nichols”, p.126, Timber Press

“I think the Caribbean countries face rising oceans and they face increase in the severity of hurricanes. This is something that is very, very scary to all of us. The island states in the world represent - I remember this number - one-half of 1 percent of the carbon emissions in the world. And they will - some of them will disappear.”

Source : "Earth Day 2009: Obama Energy Chief Lays Out Climate Doomsday Scenario". www.huffingtonpost.com. May 20, 2009.

“I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.”

“It is easy to forget how mysterious and mighty stories are. They do their work in silence, invisibly. They work with all the internal materials of your mind and self. They become part of you while changing you. Beware the stories you read or tell; subtly, at night, beneath the waters of consciousness, they are altering your world.”

“The camera can photograph thought. It's better than a paragraph of sweet polemic.”

“Most fashion models do not look good in bikinis because they're too thin.”

“I don't want to have my life fall apart for my work.”

“I am not in the habit of taking baritones to supper.”