I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

There are storm clouds before the storm, there are the living before the dead. I need a figurehead, a banner bearer who will announce my arrival to the world.

The things that you consistently think of yourself and your abilities will always overwrite the things that people say about you.

Sleep just a while longer, that's it, where else can you go where you neither suffer nor cause suffering.

Yes, there's a problem with gender as it is today, and we must fix it, we must do better.

Iraq has stockpiled biological and chemical weapons, and is rebuilding the facilities used to make more of those weapons.

When I was 49, I posed for Playboy - I was very flattered to be asked. I was quite honoured, really, considering that most of the models they feature are in their twenties.

Do more and understand that all wealth came from poor people either as the entrepreneurs or the consumers who buy the product that keeps the entrepreneurs in business.

Do what you will, only do something.

Saying that the Palestinian people aren't really a people - that's not a zany thing to say. That's a psychotic thing to say in the midst of all of the politics we live through on a daily basis.

I realize that just my personality is, that I've gotta stay focused. I can't be too distracted.