Enthusiats are used to being mocked, maligned and misunderstood. We don't really mind.

Incuriosity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

You can never hope to recapture the first fine careless rapture as the poet put it, but it stays with you like a good acid trip.

Hell, I am young. I am free. My teeth are clean. The sun shines. To hell with everything else

Mankind can live free in a society hemmed in by laws, but we have yet to find a historical example of mankind living free in lawless anarchy.

Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me into gibbering weeping hells of pain that no torturer could ever devise".

The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.