From a human point of view, out bodily existence is a fairytale. At any rate, to the inhabitants of the human world, 'heaven' and 'the next world' are both nothing but fables.

Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

I am too fond of reading books to care to write them.

We cannot own each other, Bo. We can only offer what is ours to give.

If I place love above everything, it is because for me it is the most desperate, the most despairing state of affairs imaginable.

I was happy. I loved the night, I loved t so much it almost hurt. In the night everything seemed possible. I wasn't sleepy at all.

Thought, then, is the execution of this computer code.

I asked for help, which is the hardest thing in the world.

The environment itself will teach the child, if every error he makes is manifest to him, without the intervention of a parent of teacher, who should remain a quiet observer of all that happens.

You're always going to need those folks that introduce certain things to the next generation and I fit in that sense.

Ronnie Barker was a straightforward man who had this extraordinary ability to make the nation laugh