If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

The English language is an arsenal of weapons. If you are going to brandish them without checking to see whether or not they are loaded, you must expect to have them explode in your face from time to time.

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

I can understand the Greek idea that there are these these principles of lightening or of war or of wisdom and to embody them, to personify them into a Athena or Aries or whichever god you want makes enormous sense.

You should give up.' 'Why?' 'For one thing, you'll live longer.' 'Oh, you don't live longer. It just seems longer.

I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.