Anthony Walton

“It always fascinates me that when a child cries we prioritize this signal. We respond. Our children don’t threaten us, and we accept that they are vulnerable and need us. We see them in an attachment frame. But we have been taught not to see adults this way.”
― Sue Johnson, Hold Me Tight: Your Guide to the Most Successful Approach to Building Loving Relationships

“The price for following your muse and doing everything on your own terms is almost always to live in relative poverty, but that’s been a price well worth paying. Not least because, for me, music has always drawn a larger circle around any arbitrary differences of age, gender, race, sexuality, class or background. It’s much more important than that. It’s the most important thing there is.”
― Steve Davis, Medical Grade Music

“He always did his shopping in Waitrose, as it was ‘a positive British experience generally unsullied by the presence of foreigners’.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit

“Connie, in what I realised later was an effort to steer the conversation to where she needed it, mentioned that Fortean Times had reported that a moose shot dead by a hunter was later found to have amassed a considerable library of George Eliot novels, critical appraisals, biographies and poetry, and had been attempting to write a dissertation on how Eliot’s life could be viewed from the viewpoint of even-toed ungulates singled out for their lack of apparent good looks.”
― Jasper Fforde, The Constant Rabbit