Casebook is my attempt at a love story. I had a vision of a difficult love.
A counter tenor is anyone who can count to ten.
It's a funny kind of month, October. For the really keen cricket fan it's when you discover that your wife left you in May.
There's an unseen force which lets birds know when you've just washed your car.
If all the world is a stage, and all the men and women merely players, where do all the audiences come from?
And when you're on your own there is that terrifying possibility that you may be the only person on the planet who thinks it's funny - and you have no way of finding out.
It's like your children talking about holidays, you find they have a quite different memory of it from you. Perhaps everything is not how it is, but how it's remembered.
Nothing tells more about the character of a man than the things he makes fun of.
Thirst for victory leads to defeat; not tiring of defeat leads to victory.
Whatever the truth is about the extent to which truth is respected in the future, it is going to depend partly on what we do. More important than making predictions is doing things which help bring about this respect.
No one who lives in the sunlight of gratitude that things aren't worse makes a failure of his or her life.