A sports expert is the guy who writes the best alibis for being wrong

Fishing, with me, has always been an excuse to drink in the daytime

Christmas is a holiday that persecutes the lonely, the frayed, and the rejected.

A rabid sports fan is one that boos a TV set

I judge how much a man cares for a woman by the space he allots her under a jointly shared umbrella.

I can't remember ever staying for the end of a movie in which the actors wore togas.

A puck is a hard rubber disk that hockey players strike when they can't hit one another.

Rooting for the Yankees is like owning a yacht.

England produces the best fat actors.

Hockey would be a great game... if played in the mud.

Joe Louis is a credit to his race - the human race.

He found it both sad and fascinating that only through an artificial universe of video images could she establish contact with the real world.

A vision is something that holds you up when everyone pushes you down.

The sooner you finish procrastinating, the sooner you can get back to your art.

But I know something else, too: bad people are rare. Good people are everywhere.

A still small voice spake unto me, 'Thou art so full of misery, Were it not better not to be?

I've always liked hills. I see a challenge, a goal, and I feel instantly galvanized to achieve that goal.

The digital revolution has changed the way we do things because you're not under that pressure that film is precious and film is expensive.

Oh, how hard it must be to die anywhere but in ones birthplace.

The whole 'R' rating depends on a strange sort of fantasy land where all adults are responsible people, and children only ever go to the cinema with their parents.

The English country house is certainly an icon of British culture.