I am the batsman and the bat, / I am the bowler and the ball, / The umpire, the pavilion cat, / The roller, pitch, and stumps, and all.

I don't think the idea of homosexuality is really taboo any more. Our culture is evolving. This is an exciting time to be living.

Politicians use statistics in the same way that a drunk uses lamp-postsfor support rather than illumination.

Again, if there are really no fairies, why do people believe in them, all over the world? The ancient Greeks believed, so did the old Egyptians, and the Hindoos, and the Red Indians, and is it likely, if there are no fairies, that so many different peoples would have seen and heard them?

And remember that the danger which is most to be feared is never the danger we are most afraid of.

Of all animals, he alone attains to the Contemplative Life.

You can cover a great deal of country in books.