The ending is nearer than you think, and it is already written. All that we have left to choose is the correct moment to begin.

The Conservative Party is a religion in that they are bound together by belief. Almost any organization has its religious aspects.

Romantic poetry had its heyday when people like Lord Byron were kicking it large. But you try and make a living as a poet today, and you'll find it's very different!

Never despair. Never surrender.

In an era of stress and anxiety, when the present seems unstable and the future unlikely, the natural response is to retreat and withdraw from reality, taking recourse either in fantasies of the future or in modified visions of a half-imagined past.

Look at him now, poor fellow. That's what a dose of reality does for you...Never touch the stuff myself, you understand. Find it gets in the way of the hallucinations.

As far as I can see, it's not important that we have free will, just as long as we have the illusion of free will to stop us going mad.