I have a utilitarian approach to dressing; as long as I quite like it and it covers me up, I don't care what it is.

By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.

As long as we prioritize material truths over spiritual truths we will live in tyranny because we are living an illusion

You must not feel persecuted and examined. Liberate yourself from the idea that people are watching you.

The thing I thought about doing it was it's Comic Relief and you've got to be funny. So although I did try to sing properly it obviously has hilarious results when you can't sing.

People say you should read your criticism because it will make you a better person but it doesn't. It just makes you a sad bitter old showbiz nightmare.

I get fixated when I'm bleeding -- I can see why they went in for blood-letting in the medieval times because it makes you feel a bit better. When I cut myself, the drama of it calms me down.

A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.

There are two types of people in this world: one who opens a packet of biscuits, has one and puts the rest back in the cupboard, and one who eats the whole packet in one go.

The bad-boy label is just an assumption.

There are 10-20 times more male comics than female comics; it's something to do with the social structure of society.

(Kaylee) Tell me I'm pretty, Wash.(Wash) Were I unwed I would take you in a manly fashion.(kaylee) Because I'm pretty?(Wash) Because you're pretty.

The journey that I have undertaken, meeting people from all walks of life and learning from them, has been my biggest achievement.

It's a wonderful thing to be optimistic. It keeps you healthy and it keeps you resilient.

My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.

I also believe I met William Gaddis once. He did not look Italian.

And for a minute, maybe longer... everything that threatens us, threatens to save us.

I have not written in vain if I have heretofore done anything towards diminishing the reputation of the Renaissance landscape painting.

I have met almost everyone I've wanted to meet.

The government shouldn't run anything, because it cannot run anything.

I do what I have to do," I say. I do what I have to do to save him. I do what I have to do to save Todd.