I think people nowadays do tend to blame their parents for everything.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

A child is born into a world of phenomena all equal in their power to enslave.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

I was born in Liverpool in England, and I lived there for the first nine years of my life.

It's an extraordinary thing about Mozart is that you never tire of him... he never bores me, and he doesn't... not only bore me, that's too strong a word.

All reined up in old language and old assumptions, straining to jump clean-hoofed on to a whole new track of being I only suspect is there. I can't see it, because my educated, average head is being held at the wrong angle. I can't jump because the bit forbids it, and my own basic force - my horsepower, if you like - is too little.