Eating reveals the characteristic grossness of the human race and also the in-built failure of its satisfactions. We arrive eager, we stuff ourselves and we go away depressed and disappointed and probably feeling a bit queasy into the bargain. It's an image of the déçu in human existence. A greedy start and a stupefied finish. Waiters, who are constantly observing this cycle, must be the most disillusioned of men.

Only lies and evil come from letting people off.

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.

We need a moral philosophy in which the concept of love, so rarely mentioned now by philosophers, can once again be made central.

Hegel says that Truth is a great word and the thing is greater still. With Dave we never seemed to get past the word.

There is no triumph of good, and if there were it would not be a triumph of good.

Music relates sound and time and so pictures the ultimate edges of human commmunications.