When I was 20, the idea of having a play on anywhere was just beyond my dreams.
Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.
My dear Tristan, to be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes o...
I once did a radio program with a famous materialist, that is to say a scientist who believed that absolutely everything was physical and that all emotions were reductive to little electrical impulses...
From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was...
It would have been nice to have had unicorns.
A lesson in folly is worth two in wisdom.
Although I don't examine myself in this respect, I would say, off the top of my head, that I've come to acknowledge my Czechness more as I get older.
It's better to be quotable than to be honest.
You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.
THOMASINA:But then the Egyptian noodle made carnal embrace with the enemy who burned the great library of Alexandria without so much as a fine for all that is overdue!
When Auden said his poetry didn't save one Jew from the gas chamber, he'd said it all.
A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.
This is not a drill.
Free to move, speak, extemporize, and yet. We have not been cut loose. Our truancy is defined by one fixed star, and our drift represents merely a slight change of angle to it: we may seize the moment...
Chater: You dare to call me that. I demand satisfaction!Septimus: Mrs Chater demanded satisfaction and now you are demanding satisfaction. I cannot spend my time day and night satisfying the demands o...
Be happy -- if you're not even happy, what's so good about surviving?
As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
Death followed by eternity the worst of both worlds. It is a terrible thought.
What is the society we wish to protect? Is it the society of complete surveillance for the commonwealth? Is this the wealth we seek to have in common - optimal security at the cost of maximal surveill...