“No really. If you only have seven years left, that means the Reaper will be dropping round for tea and buns in about 61,000 hours from now. You therefore shouldn’t be wasting time by pootling to the garden centre at walking pace. So come on, grandad. The clock’s ticking. Pedal to the metal. Or you’ll be in your flowerbed before the plants you bought.”

“Americans will put up with anything provided it doesn’t block traffic.”

“I drive a motorbike, so there is the whiff of the grim reaper round every corner, especially in London.”

“You can’t just make me different and then leave”

“I’ve seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.”

“I think a lot of psychopaths are just geniuses who drove so fast that they lost control.”

“Sometimes people have no idea what drives you & the unlimited gears you’ve developed inside you, so they try to teach you how to steer.”

“God have pity on the smell of gasolinewhich finds its way like an armthrough a car window,more human than kerosene,more unctuous, more manly.”

“Some beautiful paths can’t be discovered without getting lost.”