Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

His was a quiet but persistent charisma.

The next time you think something's too good to be true, remember - so's electricity and sewerage!

I believe its a lifestyle choice and like any lifestyle choice it will be what you make of it and how fully you live and enjoy it.

I do think music sounds better when it's on tape and more simply recorded.

Who casts to write a living line, must sweat.

I had three jobs my junior and senior year of high school. I worked for the gas station and worked for a pizza place.

A taste for books, which is still the pleasure and glory of my life.

You always want to make the best film you can. If anything I feel more relaxed after the Oscar. I feel like I have a chance to just tell the stories I want to tell and it's actually been really nice.

We would also like you to know that the Church recognizes the riches of the Islamic faith - a faith that binds us to the one God.

Hunger is a powerful incentive to introspection.