I can't abide small talk.

I want truth. I'm crying out to hear it. I need it like oxygen.

I'm a Taurus, you know. A bull. I belong in a field.

We must remember to enjoy ourselves.

Seven thirty in the morning is too early for a man of my standing.

I have two vintage typewriters. One just about works and the other hasn't a hope in hell, bless it. But they're both beautiful, and they'll stay with me just as long as there's a roof over my head.

I once knew a girl who didn't know where anywhere was in the world. Not a clue. I asked her if she knew where Africa was and she answered, 'Is it the orange one on a map?'

I've spent so much of my adult life in relationships that it's actually quite pleasant to be alone at last. I turned thirty-six the other day, which staggers me when I think about it.

I'm the worst ad anyone could possibly be for abstaining from anything.

I like a decent funeral, and God knows in my family we've seen enough of them. Looking through family photographs now is like watching an episode of 'Dad's Army.

Milk which is just about to turn is akin to that moment spent on the cusp of failure in a dulled and fettered relationship.

So that is marriage, Lily thought, a man and a woman looking at a girl throwing a ball

Could crushed spirit be destroyed if it encountered too much spirit?

we are houses eaten by rivers because we do not know their smell.

They've been stepping on my toes for years. It's just a reason to get new boots.

...she studies to be equal in a world that is no longer surprised at anything

Wonder implies the desire to learn.

If you don’t jump, the wings never come.

In television, I don't feel constraints. I feel a lot freedom to maneuver.

Kino-Eye uses every possible means in montage, comparing and linking all points of the universe in any temporal order, breaking, when necessary, all the laws and conventions of film construction.

Genius, apart from natural sensitiveness, is prone equally to unreasoning joy and to bitterest morbidness.