A life accumulates a collection: of people, work and perplexities. We are all our own curators.

You must not lie about trilobites, nor yet about time.

I believe profoundly in the importance of museums; I would go as far as to say that you can judge a society by the quality of its museums.

It is not necessary to be large to be a perfectly good arthropod (or mollusc, come to that).

There is virtue in work and there is virtue in rest. Use both and overlook neither.

The essence of humour is surprise; that is why you laugh when you see a joke in Punch.

Our progress in degeneracy appears to me to be pretty rapid.

Football changes and so do people.

Perhaps you will forget tomorrow the kind words you say today, but the recipient may cherish them over a lifetime.

I'd have been a filmmaker or a cartoonist or something else which extended from the visual arts into the making of narratives if I hadn't been able to shift into fiction.

Forgiveness is a form of the highest love

Then all of a sudden, Quentin Tarantino comes along and puts a song from 40 years ago in one of his films and they've suddenly discovered you. That was a real gift that Quentin gave me.

Our enemies did not cross our borders They crept through our weaknesses like ants.

Alan: Conning people out of their savings. Forgery. Blackmail. Selling real estate on Mars. We could have it all. You with me, Bambi?" Sin: "Clive, I was with you from 'I'm a social worker.