England is a fairly envious little country and it's embodied in the press. They don't like anyone being more distinguished than they are.

The very essence of playfulness is an openness to anything that may happen, the feeling that whatever happens, it's okay... you're either free to play, or you're not.

What have the Romans ever done for us?

All right, but apart from the sanitation, medicine, education, wine, public order, irrigation, roads, the fresh water system and public health, what have the Romans ever done for us?

You don't have to be the Dalai Lama to tell people that life's about change.

Creativity is not a talent. It is a way of operating.

Come to me. I want to plow you like a Calgary driveway at Christmas.

A wonderful thing about true laughter is that it just destroys any kind of system of dividing people.

If God did not intend for us to eat animals, then why did he make them out of meat?

Creativity is not the possession of some special talent. It’s about the willingness to play.

When you're being stalked by an angry mob with raspberries, the first thing to do is to release a tiger.

When someone has been mean to you, why would you want to be good to them?' 'You wouldn't want to. That's what makes it hard. You do it anyway. Being good is hard. Much harder than being bad.

Truth is what you think, not what you find.

My playground was the theatre. I'd sit and watch my mother pretend for a living. As a young girl that's pretty seductive.

The purpose of sports - even foreign sports - is not to bore people.

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

She was wearing a canary-yellow two-piece bathing suit, one piece of which she would not actually be needing for another nine or ten years.

Too many actors have run for office. There's one difference between me and them: I know I'm not qualified.

The apple . . . came before Adam and Eve in the story of creation. It had to have been there at least three years because that's how long it takes for a new tree to bear fruit.

Whenever a total eclipse of the sun was visible in an accessible region parties were sent out to observe it.

The abuse of grace is affectation, as the abuse of the sublime is absurdity; all perfection is nearly a fault.