I hate restaurants that play music. You come out for a quiet meal, and you're supposed to put up with all this booming. Why? It's madness!

I wish I'd known that one day the geek would inherit the Earth.

Keep going and don't give up. You're doing wonderfully. You'll know how to fly this thing eventually.

I suppose I just like being arty. That's all. Arty.

I'd say, don't listen to what anyone says: you're good. Go put your anorak on. Get your thick bottle-top specs. Draw your little cartoons and your comics and keep writing to the BBC.

I love people where, at the end of the day, they'll pick up a paintbrush and paint clouds. They can physically make things.

There is no such thing as too much swearing. Swearing is just a piece of linguistic mechanics. The words in-between are the clever ones.

I found American actors quite scary because they're brilliant actors and brilliantly funny, and they never stopped once you wound them up... off they went and they just deliver fantastic stuff.

I'm not an extravagant man. The fact that I can have a coffee out whenever I want still makes me feel grateful.

Every viewer who ever turned on Doctor Who has taken him into his heart. He belongs to all of us.

The older I get, the more I think lightness of touch is an incredibly difficult thing to do.

Good God, Keith.""Yes, I've talked to Him too and I'm still waiting on his Guidance...

I didn't study the piano - the piano studied me.

There's a pervasive feeling that when somebody sings a song and records a song on a record, that it's their true feeling.

Strength and weakness of mind are misnomers; they are really nothing but the good or bad health of our bodily organs.

Nothing in a language is less translatable than its modes of understatement.

Baseball gives you every chance to be great. Then it puts every pressure on you to prove you haven't got what it takes.

Start [writing] as close to the end as possible.

We are selfish when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good for ourselves. We are altruistic when we are exclusively or predominantly concerned with the good of others.

I find myself only by losing myself.

Now he knew: They were real. Who’d make up a thing like this? Okay, one of them was a cheese that rolled around of its own accord, but nobody was perfect.