The arts quite simply nourish the soul. They sustain comfort inspire. There is nothing like that exquisite moment when you first discover the beauty of connecting with others in celebration of larger ideals and shared wisdom.

Listening to my regular favourites - Mozart Beethoven Brahms and so on - I always feel quite misguidedly that nothing can be too bad if such beauty and brilliance exists in the world.

I've developed into quite a swan. I'm one of those people that will probably look better and better as I get older until I drop dead of beauty.

He was afflicted by the thought that where Beauty was nothing ever ran quite straight which no doubt was why so many people looked on it as immoral.

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about.

Somehow a bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.

I film quite a bit of footage then edit. Changes before your eyes things you can do and things you can't. My attitude is always 'let it keep rolling.'

I try and have a relaxed attitude and stay quite switched off until about an hour before kick-off.

Becoming an author changes your attitude too. Once you see where books come from and how they're made they never seem quite as sacred again.