“I had not thought that I was doing wrong; I had never taken so many things into consideration.”

“It was not so much that I was doing mathematics, but rather that mathematics had taken possession of me.”

“I do quite like hairy things. That probably came out of my growing up in front of the television as a kid in the 50s. I saw a lot of the classic Universal films, and was really attracted to the Wolf Man - I thought that was such a cool idea. And, you know, Mr Hyde. So many things I like had hair on. So I started making hairy things and never stopped, you know?”

“There are obvious problems with so many denominations in schools today, but I had collective worship at school and I do not think it is a bad thing.”

“I never planned ahead for anything in my life -- not for my exams, not when I had to buy clothes for an occasion -- I always do things at the last moment. So when I got the captaincy, I kept doing what I always did. I never thought about success, failure, future or past.”

“If I could not be persuaded into doing what I thought wrong, I will never be tricked into it.”

“Unreal city,
Under the brown fog of a winter dawn,
A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many,
I had not thought death had undone so many.”

“So many things I had thought forgotten
Return to my mind with stranger pain:
Like letters that arrive addressed to someone
Who left the house so many years ago.”

“If there was one thing I had never been, it was mysterious, and if there was one thing I had never done, it was not talk.”

“I once had a garden filled with flowers that grew only on dark thoughts but they need constant attention & one day I decided I had better things to do.”