Extra-marital sex is as overrated as pre-marital sex. And marital sex, come to think of it.

- Simon Gray

Philosophers have a long tradition of marrying stupid women, from Socrates on. They think it clever.

- Simon Gray

In my experience, the worst thing you can do to an important problem is to discuss it.

- Simon Gray

I'm fanatical about sport: there seems to me something almost religious about the fact that human beings can organise play, the spirit of play.

- Simon Gray