Quotes from Simon Gray

JASON: 'Intended wings.' How depressing. MICHAEL: Yes. Makes them into suicides, really, the pigeons. JASON: No - no, it doesn't. It could mean the wings were 'intended' to carry them upwards, out of the darkness, but they were defective in some way, these wings, so the pigeons aren't suicidal, not at all, just badly equipped for flying. Like the rest of us.

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.