but now I began to notice odd moments that suggested he was not the brightest lighthouse on the coastline. For instance, he once got very cross durin… - John Cleese

Terry Gilliam has spoken scathingly about my preference for physical comfort. I have come to the conclusion that this is very much his problem.

I noticed years ago that when people (myself definitely included) are anxious they tend to busy themselves with irrelevant activities, because these distract from and therefore reduce their actual experience of anxiety. To stay perfectly still is to feel the fear at its maximum intensity, so instead you scuttle around doing things as though you are, in some mysterious way, short of time.

I realised that I really disliked him, and I knew exactly why: he didn’t know the difference between being solemn and being serious.