He looks a hell of a lot like me, only a fair bit older.

My father said to remember your enemies as well as your friends, and don't trust either of them.

Men walk through tragedy, quietly, calm and precise on the outside, tearing themselves to shreds inside.

Pretty girls kissed me on victory day, their lips soft red petals brushing my face.

Nobody in school is stronger than me. But when Sally Holmes kissed me, I never felt so weak in all my life.

I've tried praying. It gives me comfort. But not as much as a cup of tea and a ginger nut biscuit.

Don’t spend your money on luxuries. Save it and secure a safe future. Don’t crave for quick satisfaction.

The whole world is like Whitewall's razors I burst out. It cuts us, and we bleed but there's no purpose to it.

I made a lot of mistakes but they were correctable mistakes.

It always takes two. For relationships to work, for them to break apart, for them to be fixed.

I started as a standup comic and an actor.

Jesus will empty the tombs and melt the winter of death.

The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.

The shame in life is not to fail to reach your dream, but to fail to have a dream to reach.

You're never going to get anywhere in life if you don't live up to your obligations.

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.