In Victorian criminology there was an enthusiasm for spotting criminal tendencies in a person’s features. - Derren Brown

(In answer to the question ‘How would you describe yourself in three words?’) Short and balding.

I like my parrot, Figaro. Not in a wrong way – I mean, yes, he’ll do anything for a mouth full of seed but nothing tacky.

Music is arguably the most affecting of the arts; intelligible to all people yet untranslatable into any other idiom. To Schopenhauer it was a direct expression of the ‘world will’... and was good when he had guests over.