If you find an Australian indoors, it's a fair bet that he will have a glass in his hand.

As far as the physical miseries go, I am sure I will cope. I lived at Eton in the 1950s and I know all about life in uncomfortable quarters.

Breaking a glass in the northwest is rather like belching in Arabia, for it appears to be done as a mark of appreciation or elation.

Pride is the deadliest of sins, but I was bursting with pride.

If you asked her (Margaret Thatcher) about Sinai, she would probably think it was the plural for sinus.

I personally believe a crucial ingredient in rehabilitation is to admit that you completely screwed up.

Doobie always wanted to see the badge. It was shiny, and he was eight.

And each blasphemer quite escape the rod, Because the insult's not on man, but God?

Once there were 'outside' and 'inside' paintings-now there is no difference.

You know things are moving. You're changing, you fellow Dead are changing, the world is ready for something miraculous. What are we waiting for?

Of course I'm sure half the people there hate me and half the people like me

A farmer does not grow something in the sense that he or she creates it. That human is only a small part of the whole process by which nature expresses its being.

If your only dance experience is the Nutcracker, it will be a shock; hopefully shocking in a good way.

Without death,' he answered, 'life is meaningless. It is a story that can never be told. A song that can never be sung. For how would one finish it?

If you have to ask someone to change, to tell you they love you, to bring wine to dinner, to call you when they land, you can't afford to be with them.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.