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".

Come back, and do that thing, be lovely to each-other.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

I found it all about as arousing as a Tupperware party.

A university is not, thank heavens, a place for vocational instruction, it has nothing to do with training for a working life and career, it is a place for education, something quite different.

If there is a sort of national American emotion I would call it optimism. If there is an English one I would call it embarrassment - not even pessimism - just sheer shame, embarrassment and confusion.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.