There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music.

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.

My first words, as I was being born [...] I looked up at my mother and said, 'that's the last time I'm going up one of those.

If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything.

I knew I couldn't believe in God, because I was fundamentally Hellenic in my outlook.

Wisdom is probably the ability to cope. That's why someone who has to walk seven miles every day to get water for their children can be wiser than someone sitting behind a desk in Wall Street.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.