All intellectual tendencies are corrupted when they consort with power.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

There is no such thing as a great man of God, only weak, pitiful, faithless men of a great and merciful God.

From error to error one discovers the entire truth.

When you risk nothing, you risk never truly living!

We will have to embark on a change so radical, a revolution so quiet and yet so total, that it will go far beyond the programme for a parliament.

Animals are such agreeable friends.

Place the contents of the Chess box in a hat, shake them up vigorously, pour them on the board from a height of two feet, and you get the style of Steinitz

I want to reach the status of becoming a mogul. And the only way you get there is by work.

In the pulpit, I really feel like I'm in my sweet spot, I'm in my stride.

What lasts is what is written. We look to literature to find the essence of an age.

We have to make ourselves as perfect as we can.