I don't know if I have a voice of my own. I don't see me being an important person with something to say. I haven't. I've got nothing to say. My opinion is of no consequence or value.

I strike up conversations all the time and it is very interesting, finding out about things I know nothing about.

I enjoyed reading and learning at school, and at university I enjoyed extending my reading and learning. Once I left Cambridge, I went to Yale as a fellow. I spent two years there. After that, George Gale made me literary editor of 'The Spectator.

I am in the Pitte, but I have gone so deep that I can see the brightness of the Starres at Noon.

The ordinary routines of life are never chronicled by the historian, but they make up almost the whole of experience.

I have always believed that the material world is governed by nonmaterial sources, so that in that sense 'English Music' is an exercise in the spiritual as well as the material. I have always been attracted to the Gothic and spiritual imagination, and I've always been interested in visionaries.

It is strange, is it not, how a person can adore one's soul so much that they adore one's body also?