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

Why take drugs specifically designed to send you insane?

In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

I don't find life unbearably grave. I find it almost intolerably frivolous.

My own diagnosis of my problem is a simpler one. It's that I share 50 per cent of my genome with a banana and 98 per cent with a chimpanzee. Banana's don't do psychological consistency. And the tiny part of us that's different - the special Homo sapiens bit - is faulty. It doesn't work. Sorry about that.

One of the hardest things about being alive is being with other people.

You put your time where your priority is.