A melancholy lesson of advancing years is the realisation that you can't make old friends.

Hesitate once, hesitate twice, hesitate a hundred times before employing political standards as a device for the analysis and appreciation of poetry.

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

In a world devoid of towering political leaders, we seem to have become experts at growing idiots & elevating them to important positions.

Side by side we'll fight the tide, That sweeps in to take us down.Hand in hand we'll both withstand, Even as we drown.

those which arise dependently are free of inherent existence.

I think one of the great disasters (in military history) is the way that the Second World War has become the defining reference point for every crisis and every conflict.

I have learned the truth of the observation that the more one approaches great men the more one finds that they are men.

Peanut butter is the greatest invention since Christianity.

It's great to just disappear, grab a suitcase, switch the answering machine on and just go somewhere else.

Tumbling-hair picker of buttercups violets dandelions And the big bullying daisies through the field wonderful with eyes a little sorry Another comes also picking flowers

It sounds simple, of course, but personally I can think of no more mentally arduous task than making music.

President George W. Bush is the first American president to call openly for two-states, Israel and Palestine, living side by side in peace and security.