I don’t understand why people take pictures of mimes. Everyone looks like a mime in a picture.

Parrots have gone a bit quiet since pirates have gone.

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

It would be spiteful to put a Jellyfish in a trifle.

Pigeons: They've got wings, but they walk a lot.

I've got loads of nieces and nephews.

[Jellyfish] are 97% water or something, so how much are they doing? Just give them another 3% and make them water. It's more useful.

Avocados, it's a food that ain't worth injuring yourself for. If it's a hassle to get into, leave it to the experts.

We've had the Iron Age, the Stone Age, this is the pissin' about age.

People who live in a glass house have to answer the door.

You know, when you're a producer, you're a bit of a lackey. You're just making cups of tea and making sure they've got newspaper, stuff like that.

You’ve always been a stormYour lightning mouthElectrifies my heart

If you're living completely on your own, break out of solitary confinement. Seek to understand others, and help them understand you.

Grief—in all of its agony—burrowed deep into her essence, its serrated edges killing her piece by piece.

It wasn't like she was lonely and in fact – she had understood it all in every way except with her brain. Now she knew that she knew.

To admire Satan [in Paradise Lost] is to give one's vote not only for a world of misery, but also for a world of lies and propaganda, of wishful thinking, of incessant autobiography.

I have tipped waiters, and I have been tipped by waiters.

You can stay up all night and still not count all the ways to lose the people you love.

I can't deal with the press; I hate all those Beatles questions.

You can't put passion and obsession into someone's employment contract - either you are or you aren't.

Like friendship, hatred needed more than physical intimacy; it wanted creativity and hard work to sustain itself