Out of all the weird things out of the tour, the weirdest thing for me is singing every day.
The human mind can bear plenty of reality but not too much intermittent gloom.
There are some people who cannot get onto a train without imagining that they are about to voyage into the significant unknown; as though the notion of movement were inseparably connected with the notion of discovery, as though each displacement of the body were a displacement of the soul.
I've always thought that very few people grow old as admirably as academics. At least books never let them down.
I need words and print. . . I need print like an addict. I could live without it, perhaps. But I hope I never have to try.
I used to be a reasonably careless and adventurous person before I had children; now I am morbidly obsessed by seat-belts and constantly afraid that low-flying aircraft will drop on my children's school.
London, how could one ever be tired of it?
Considering the way the world is, one happy day is almost a miracle.
Ambition is not a vice of little people.
If you want to get your soul to heaven, trust in me. Don't judge or question. You are broken now, but faith can heal you. Just do everything I tell you to do.
If you wish to know the mind of a man, listen to his words.