T. S. Eliot

I am an Anglo-Catholic in religion, a classicist in literature and a royalist in politics.

It is only in the world of objects that we have time and space and selves.

The most important thing for poets to do is to write as little as possible.

Tyranny is increasingly unsustainable in this post-cold-war era. It is doomed to failure. But it must be prodded to exit the stage with a whimper - not the bang that extremists long for.

Another thing that freaks me out is time. Time is like a book. You have a beginning, a middle and an end. It's just a cycle.

There's no magic for getting into the groove... just banging away at it. Sometimes the lyrics come first, sometimes the music.