In the 1970s, British food was beginning to get good, whereas in France it was just starting its long, sad decline. My most memorable meals, however, have been in Italy.

You put your time where your priority is.

Our own choices might not be as good as those that are made for us.

The end-of-summer winds make people restless.

The function of music is to liberate in the soul those feelings which normally we keep locked up in the heart.

Inhale and hold the evening in your lungs.

Have you ever been lonely? No, neither have I. Solitary, yes. Alone, certainly. But lonely means minding about being on your own. I've never minded about it.

Oh, the sweetness of giving in, of full surrender.

Life can be lived at a remove. You trade in futures, and then you trade in derivatives of futures. Banks make more money trading derivatives than they do trading actual commodities.

That's what opium does to suffering: makes it of hypothetical interest only.

If I could eat only one thing for the rest of my life, it would be rhubarb fool, which I make with ginger and a hint of elderflower cordial.

What made me happy was not regular pay check I got but the passion I had on the side and the effort I was putting to make that passion come to life.

Are you going? What shall you wear?""I shall go in what I am standing in, " said Mak Genggang. "A witch is always appropriate whatever her attire.

But when I think of us, in the quiet when I'm on my own, I think of Beauty and the Beast.I, being the beast, and you being the last beautiful thing in this city.

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

It is not worth while to go round the world to count the cats in Zanzibar.

Minho looked at Thomas, a serious expression on his face. "If I don't see you on the other side," he said in a sappy voice, "remember that I love you.

Learn to live well, that thou may'st die so too; To live and die is all we have to do.

All this [wealth] excludes but one evil, poverty.

The real aim of music is to co-ordinate the minds of the people into an intelligent reach for a better world and an intelligent approach to the living future.

My teachers are Duke Ellington and nature.