Coming back to where you started is not the same as never leaving.

Do you not know that a man is not dead while his name is still spoken?

Humans need fantasy to be human. To be the place where the falling angel meets the rising ape.

I'd rather be a rising ape than a falling angel.

People are content to wait a long time for salvation, but prefer dinner to turn up inside an hour.

My agent pointed out one day that I had been quoted by a columnist in some American newspaper, and he noted with some glee that they simply identified me by name without reminding people who I was, apparently in the clear expectation that their readers would know who I am.

Opera happens because a large number of things amazingly fail to go wrong.