I think my view is that whenever you project into the future you're never likely to be accurate in the details, or the paraphernalia and style. It's in the spirit of it.

How can one not be fond of something that the Daily Mail despises?

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Oscar Wilde quite rightly said, 'All art is useless'. And that may sound as if that means it's something not worth supporting. But if you actually think about it, the things that matter in life are useless. Love is useless. Wine is useless. Art is the love and wine of life. It is the extra, without which life is not worth living.

You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children

Old Professors never die, they just lose their faculties.