But you know how it is with fathers and sons. We can’t say what we want to say. We think a nod is a paragraph and a sentence is a book, and, in the end, all that’s important is left unspoken.

You are like a narcotic plant.

Next to music, beer was best.

Human misery must somewhere have a stop there is no wind that always blows a storm.

He has achieved success who has worked well, laughed often, and loved much.

When one compares the talents one has with those of a Leibniz , one is tempted to throw away one's books and go die quietly in the dark of some forgotten corner.

Time seems to me a drift, a shifting of sand. And my mind is shifting with it. I am wearing away.

The cat has complete emotional honesty - an attribute not often found in humans.

We all do no end of feeling, and we mistake it for thinking.

Someone suggested the Kaiser Chiefs while we were looking for a band name. We had so many ideas ourselves, at least one of us had said no to every idea except Kaiser Chiefs.

I will obviously take on board everything from my past, I always do.