His pear-shaped head, I could now see, was situated on top of a pear-shaped body, which his black gown caused to resemble a piece of fruit going to a funeral.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Though I think and speak of greater becoming, I, too, am an infinite work in progress.

When faced with a difficult situation, do not panic but pray!

Without passion man is a mere latent force and possibility like the flint which awaits the shock of the iron before it can give forth its spark.

So I begged, half way into season two, for them to let me cut my hair.

The need for empowering investors to have information on the way their own money is invested is not going away.

We can do nothing without prayer.

I was 15, and the years of hard swimming had packed muscle on my frame and made me very strong. Not as strong as a football player, but strong enough to inflict heavy damage.

I had my share of critics, and I wash my hands of the whole lot.

I look for good directors mainly because if you do enough of movies where there's not a real creative vision behind it, you start to turn into a robot and you want to jump off a bridge.

Tax cuts were not going to be effective at creating jobs, and the job creation record is lousy.