“I've been working hard at assuming Court polish, but the more I learn about what really goes on behind the pretty voices and waving fans and graceful bows, the more I comprehend that what is really said matters little, so long as the manner in which it is said pleases. I understand it, but I don't like it. Were I truly influential, then I would halt this foolishness that decrees that in Court one cannot be sick; that to admit you are sick is really to admit to political or social or romantic defeat; that to admit to any emotions usually means one really feels the opposite. It is a terrible kind of falsehood that people can only claim feelings as a kind of social weapon.”
Source: Court Duel
“It is this brighter side, the romantic side, the emotional side, that appeals to me.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“Satnav will get us quickly and all-too-predictably from A to B, but the path of life is more interesting when we’re allowed to explore the side streets.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“It’s better to run towards something good, than away from something bad.”
Source: A Waterside Year: Fennel's Journal No. 2
“It’s important to believe in something, a spirit in things and a higher purpose. Something I call ‘True Beauty’.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“I wasn’t born to fetch, or sit, or accept a beating. I’m here to be me, to write, and know my purpose.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“The pen that was once a gift has come to represent all that I hope to achieve.”
Source: A Writer's Year: Fennel's Journal No. 3
“Life without a purpose is empty and useless”
“The world surrounding us often distracts us from our life purposes”
“Most of us, at some time or other, get sucked into the lifeless vacuum of work; the cogs of the corporate machine that we keep turning until one day, when we depart this Earth, we may earn the word ‘lubricant’ on our headstone.”
Source: Wild Carp: Fennel's Journal No. 4