“Retarded artistically. Idiotic in other respects.” — Teacher’s assessment of 12-year-old Keith Moon, Alperton Secondary School, Wembley, 1958

“To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.” — Borges

“If the triangles made a god, they would give him three sides.” — Montesquieu

“No man who ever held the office of president would congratulate a friend on obtaining it.” — John Adams

“The physician can bury his mistakes, but the architect can only advise his clients to plant vines.” — Frank Lloyd Wright

“I have so often seen how people come by the name of genius; in the same way, that is, as certain insects come by the name of millipede — not because they have that number of feet, but because most people won’t count up to fourteen.” — Georg Christoph Lichtenberg

“I like trees because they seem more resigned to the way they have to live than other things do.” — Willa Cather