I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

The greatest virtue is endurance.

There is nothing wrong with sobriety in moderation.

Different taste in jokes is a great strain on the affections.

The world treats beautiful people like they're good at something, which makes it so that they almost never get good at something.

Life for the Christian is a dialogue with God.

All our science calculates with abstracted individual external marks, which do not touch the inner existence of any single thing

Every day when a man or woman gets dressed, they are in effect defining who they are. That daily clean slate is a time in our lives when we can determine who we want to be.

When the chips are down, grandmothers can be counted on to do whatever's necessary. When the chips are down for grandfathers, we just go into the kitchen and get more chips.

Reality is created by the mind, we can change our reality by changing our mind.

The conflict between Japan and Chiang is little affected by the fall of the Wuhan cities and Sino-Japanese hostilities have just started.