"That may be a path that leads me to a dead end, because there comes a moment in which I can't be more radical.
"We would no longer say what Saddam said was an empty threat, because there come desperate times when you give the unthinkable a chance".
The merger itself is not the problem because there comes a point at which publishing in newsprint is no longer viable.
This can be quite embarrassing for jazz reviewers, because there comes a point at which one has to draw some kind of line and decide that an artist or CD really doesn't fit the slot.
"We take every win and celebrate it because there comes a time when you don't get many of them.
It's partly to break that spell, and partly because there comes a point in any spiral of decline when a line has to be drawn, that 25 of the country's leading wildlife and conservation groups have decided to pool the misery and publish a single, shocking stock-take of the British Countryside.
We have to let go of any anger or resentment because there comes a time when we realize that we are only hurting ourselves with it.
"But you stick with it because there comes a time when you can't turn back and accept that the only possible existence is a civilian one".
He said he had stopped contesting the charges after years of probes and rumours because "there comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, 'Enough is enough'".
