Roman influence seeds itself, sprouting mighty oaks right through the modern forest of computers, digital disks, microviruses and space satellites.

The worst takes its time to come, and then to pass.

You do have a story inside you; it lies articulate and waiting to be written -- behind your silence and your suffering.

Maybe that's what Hell is. You go mad. And all your demons come and get you just as fast as you can think them up.

They [the Greeks] were the first Westerners; the spirit of the West, the modern spirit, is a Greek discovery and the place of the Greeks is in the modern world.

I look back at bands like the Small Faces, the Yardbirds, Free, the Byrds -- what came out of those bands? If you look at the family trees of some of the Briti…

Many clever Babylonians, many clever Egyptians, many clever men at the end of Rome. Can you tell me, in a world that is flagrant with the failures of civilisat…