Rose doesn’t like the flat country, but I always did – flat country seems to give the sky such a chance.

My hand is very tired but I want to go on writing. I keep resting and thinking. All day I have been two people - the me imprisoned in yesterday and the me out here on the mound; and now there is a third me trying to get in - the me in what is going to happen next.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Well, my paper has asked me to do a series: Lives of the Great Musicians, reading time 2 minutes.

If you love people, you take them on trust.

It came to me that Hyde Park has never belonged to London - that it has always been , in spirit, a stretch of countryside; and that it links the Londons of all periods together most magically - by remaining forever unchanged at the heart of a ever-changing town.

And who says you always have to understand things? You can like them without understanding them -- like 'em better sometimes.