He has remained wedded to the stage, though with some intriguing diversions: for a few months after university, for instance, he trained as a clown in Italy.
So said Michel Platini earlier this year on one of the Uefa president's regular diversions down the blind alley marked "sport and politics should not mix".
Think of last-minute "bundles" and desperate diversions.
In an ideal world, this last season – with its off-puttingly funky courthouses and irritating Sandbrook diversions and part-blind legal superwomen – would have never existed.
So why the fascination with a life that, for all the diversions through tinsel town, stretched from miserable foster homes to barbiturate overdose?
Diversions – even the few hundred yards along these empty fields to the road bridge – are less simple than they sound.
Its main solution is to build more large dams (390 are under construction), and river diversions, including a long-mooted extravaganza of 30 linkages which would unite most of India's river basins.
Having bickered for decades over their rights to the Krishna river, AP and upstream Maharashtra and Karnataka are now furiously building dams and diversions that the river might not support even in flood.
People come here to escape everyday life and they want new diversions".Is the culture boom in Las Vegas in fact an upmarket gloss put on what remains a high-volume entertainment business or is the town offering something deeper?
When countries are left to their own devices, it is a racing certainty that their dams will involve more kickbacks and corruption and that they will ignore the WCD guidelines altogether.Streams of consciousnessIf dams are controversial, full-scale river diversions are political dynamite.
Like the internet that much of the rest of the world enjoys, it is messy and unruly, offering diversions such as games, shopping and much more.
