Baldrick: Have you got a plan, my lord?Blackadder: Yes I have, and it's so cunning you can brush your teeth with it!

Cause if you shoot a bullet someone dies. If you drop a bomb many die. You hit a woman, love dies. But if you say the F-word... nothing actually happens.

It seems to me there's so much more to the world than the average eye is allowed to see. I believe, if you look hard, there are more wonders in this universe than you could ever have dreamt of.

No one likes it, apart from blind people, and I'm sure even they can sense it's profound ugliness as it passes by.

We are taking a business-as-usual position at my agency, though business before 9/11 wasn't that hot either!

You see, that's the whole point of being in government. If you don't like something you simply make up a law that makes it illegal.

Most writers can write books faster than publishers can write checks.

Except for a few small presses, most publishers are north of Ground Zero.

Laboratories can reduce risk by implementing a proven and internationally accepted quality assurance technology that is applicable across the globe.

I gave you three proofs of witchcraft. A cat that drinks blood! A horse that talks! And a man who propagates POODLES!

I have to declare in all candor that no one interested in being published in our time can afford to be so naive as to believe that a book will make it merely because it's good.

What is knowledge, if it does to shape our conduct?

[T]he Christian is unable to sin and not care ... They may sin, but they cannot do so comfortably and continually. They are very much aware of their wrong actions, and they are very miserable.

Leaving is an act that cannot be undone.

The American attitude is 'We're the best'. That's why the NBA guys who come from other countries, the Europeans, all sort of stick together away from the game.

If God doesn't destroy Hollywood Boulevard, he owes Sodom and Gomorrah an apology.

Art is the result of a creative impulse derived out of a consciousness of life.

When I was three years old I was taken with my family to a little town in Western Minnesota, where I lived a more or less vapid and ordinary life until I was ten.

My empathy for poor people comes from having been one of them for so long, from knowing that their humanity is more complex and that the truths of their suffering have to be told honestly.

I have been a huge nerd to my kids. I haven't done the cool movies that they like. With '24,' I gained a lot of respect. '24' is now, it's hip, it's their generation.

I feel an obligation to myself to entertain myself and if other people get something out of it, I'm like, right on.