And yet, in terms of its emotive potential, I still find art more attractive, currently, than books, which fail at a deeper level.

Art, I subsequently realised, is like that. It softens by association and implication. It renders the hard pliable. It creates gaps, gaping holes really, in possibility.

Sometimes the heart demands.

We are, after all, human. There is something wild in those opposable thumbs.

Control is an advertising concept.

If the trees and the plants are brothers, if the birds are my sisters, then cats are truly my kin.

Intimacy, finally, had got the better of us.

We calculated the baseline requirement of diversity.

We don't teach flowers to bloom

Bravery is a cheap and vulgar quality of which the brightest instances are frequently found in the lowest savages.

Those who want to reap the benefits of this great nation must bear the fatigue of supporting it.

Instead of focusing on my looks I focus on the character that I am playing.

Out of the questions of students come most of the creative ideas and discoveries.

[Michael Flynn is not] the kind of person who is going to be more buttoned-up kind of military figure and that partisan tone.

The cornerstone of effective leadership is self-mastery.

We believe that within five years, 96 percent of British consumers will have access to the Internet, whether it be through a personal computer, a set-top box or a mobile phone.

Is Bobby Fischer quite sane?

You play crotch roulette, you're gonna hit double zero once in a while.