A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

If I’m going to have hope, I’m going to have to learn to endure disappointment.

Dogma in power does have a unique chilling ingredient not exhibited by power, however ghastly, wielded for its own traditional sake.

I would say that Op 31 had brought music just to the very edge … I just simply drew back and said, “beyond that lies complete chaos”.

What would happen if you gave yourself permission to do somethingyou’ve never done before? There’s only one way to find out.

Failure is a word unknown to me.

I like science fiction, I like fantasy, I like time travel, so I had this idea: What if you had a phone that could call into the past?

It's surprising how much memory is built around things unnoticed at the time.

If you fall in love with somebody, then you're not even worried about your bills. Love can take your mind off of anything.

I am a Norfolk man and Glory in being so.

Remember the poor, it costs nothing.