I don't like being rumbled, I like to be invisible.

Shakespeare drew a map of the human mind as clearly as Newton mapped the heavens. Wht is one considered science and the other fir only to be mocked with jokes about pretty girls and drury lane?

I never for a moment considered killing myself, because it wouldn't have achieved anything.

It was too difficult. People weren't prepared to put in the hours on the donkey work - you know, dates and facts and so on. I think in retrospect my generation will be seen as a turning point. From now on there'll be a net loss of knowledge in Europe. The difference between a peasant community in fourteenth-century Iran and modern London, though, is that if with their meager resources the villagers occasionally slipped backward, it was not for lack of trying. But with us, here in England, it was a positive choice. We chose to know less.

This is how most people live: alive, but not conscious; conscious but not aware; aware, but intermittently.

The past was suddenly rushing in on me in a way I found hard to fight.

But I think if any song can touch the heart, then one should value it.