The most exciting rhythms seem unexpected and complex, the most beautiful melodies simple and inevitable.

Of course,Behaviourism 'works'. So does torture.

'Healing,' Papa would tell me, 'is not a science, but the intuitive art of wooing nature.'

Dance, dance, dance till you drop.

Nobody is ever sent to Hell: he or she insists on going there.

The only way to spend New Year's Eve is either quietly with friends or in a brothel. Otherwise when the evening ends and people pair off, someone is bound to be left in tears.

The Three Wiseman: The weather has been awful, The countryside is dreary, Marsh, jungle, rock; and echoes mock, Calling our hope unlawful; But a silly song can help along Yours ever and sincerely: At least we know for certain that we are three old sinners, that this journey is much too long, that we want our dinners, and miss our wives, our books, our dogs, but have only the vaguest idea why we are what we are. To discover how to be human now Is the reason we follow this star.