He had long been curious at leaders intermittent calls for a return to past values and had tested the notion by trying to build a house from the sky downwards

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

A sniper is like a genius - it’s not enough to be one, you have to be one at something.

One thing you’ll say for skeletons, they’ll always give you a smile.

The optimist sees the future as a rabbit sees the oncoming truck - getting bigger, not closer.

In America, fundamentalist Christians believe the world was created 6,000 years ago - in England people drink in bars that are older than that.

Biting enemies seems to be acceptable in a surprisingly narrow range of circumstances, or so a ninja shouted at me once

We have truth in order not to die of art.

He has been positively growing tusks trying to create a breed of human insect which will continue to live on this accursed planet. Everyone needs a goal.

Dreams always end before you kill the last person.

Fractal litigation, whereby the flapping of a butterfly’s wings on one side of the world resulted in a massive compensation claim on the other.

To have sinned and wake up the next day is truly a miracle, repent.

It’s television, after all. No one is dead, even when they die.

I get strength from my art - all the paintings I own are powerful.

I didn't think any amount of money was worth something that would take away what you believed in or what you stood for. I didn't want to do something my parents and daughter couldn't be proud of.

I wasn't disciplined at all. As good of an athlete as I was, I was not disciplined. Had I had the drive that I have in comedy, and acting, and writing, that's why I knew it just wasn't right for me.

Putting your name on something and having no idea how it came about if someone else did all the work - that's not me.

The purpose of art is the lifelong construction of a state of wonder.

I have no use for humility. I am a fellow with an exceptional talent.

Love is meant to LIFT you up, not tear you down. It is meant to strengthen you, not weaken you.

I feel... an ardent desire to see knowledge so disseminated through the mass of mankind that it may, at length, reach even the extremes of society: beggars and kings.