"I think there are too many guns. That's a problem. I'd rather have immigrants than guns."

“You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.”

“An aesthetic movement with a revolutionary dynamism and no popular appeal should proceed quite otherwise than by public scandal, publicity stunt, noisy expulsion and excommunication.”

“And you don't want to just totally mess up the rhythm when you're playing with Bob Dylan.”

“The wrong answers are stopping the right ones from emerging.”

“I warn you not to be ordinary, I warn you not to be young, I warn you not to fall ill, and I warn you not to grow old.”

Source : On the prospect of a Conservative re-election, in speech at Bridgend, 7 June 1983; 'Guardian' 8 June 1983

“I believe in the rest of the story. I believe there's still ink in the pen.... and someday all that's hazy through a clouded glass will be clear at last.”

“Mabutt has now played seven consecutive games for England, this is his seventh”

“Pretend that I ain't in fact/Coming off like a thin hat/Where strong wind at”