As I stood outside in Cow Lane, it occurred to me that Heaven must be a place where the library is open twenty-four hours a day, seven days a week. No ... eight days a week.

One of the marks of a truly great mind, I had discovered, is the ability to feign stupidity on demand.

Anyone who knew the word slattern was worth cultivating as a friend.

If poisons were ponies, I'd put my money on cyanide.

The spectrum on the list is very broad. It includes leftists who think that whiny liberals should be stuffed in a sack and drowned.

I always knew that I wanted to work on my own material - something that would be more long-lasting than short-lived electronic transmissions.

Whenever I'm out-of-doors and find myself wanting to have a first-rate think, I fling myself down on my back, throw my arms and legs out so that I look like an asterisk, and gaze at the sky.

Chicken fizz! O Lord, protect all of us who toil in the vineyards of experimental chemistry!

Compared with my life Cinderella was a spoiled brat.

I'm at that age where I watch such things with two minds, one that cackles at these capers and another that never gets much beyond a rather jaded and self-conscious smile, like the Mona Lisa.

Although it is pleasant to think about poison at any season, there is something special about Christmas, and I found myself grinning.

Every lover is, in his heart, a madman, and, in his head, a minstrel.

The absence of self-love can never be replaced with the presence of people's love for you.

How can I blame the cherry blossomsFor rejecting this floating world And drifting away as the wind calls them

No man can be a patriot on an empty stomach.

When I was as you are now, towering in the confidence of twenty-one, little did I suspect that I should be at forty-nine, what I now am.

Your endowment is, to receive all those ordinances in the house of the Lord, which are necessary for you, after you have departed this life, to enable you to walk back to the presence of the Father.

I find teaching - I like it, but I find just walking into the classroom and facing the students very difficult.

We learn and grow and are transformed not so much by what we do but by why and how we do it.

I like those guys who brought dub into live band context too, Peaking Lights. Joe Gibbs & The Professionals!

I could probably spend the next five years reworking an album from ten years ago, if given the chance, to make it better - make it best, so to speak.