I have an editor in my head, that's why I can't read Harry Potter, because Rowling is such a lousy writer.

My fictitious characters will take the bit between their teeth and gallop off and do something that I hadn't counted on. However, I always insist on dragging them back to the straight and narrow

I want to know what they look like, their height, and colouring, physique and speech pattens.

There are no ambitions noble enough to justify breaking someone's heart.

If you love people, they kill you. If you need people, they kill you. They do I tell you!

I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.

The Labour Party of today has fits of horrors of the very thought of somebody like me might saying that they bought in white Australia. But I believe they did.

The lovely thing about being forty is that you can appreciate twenty-five-year-old men more.

What was sleep? A blessing, a respite from life, an echo of death, a demanding nuisance?

Belief doesn't rest on proof or existence...it rests on faith...without faith there is nothing.

That's the purpose of old age... To give us a breathing space before we die, in which to see why we did what we did.

Imagination is the air of mind.

Relaxation and anxiety are incompatible responses that cannot coexist.

I believe the essence of the Independence Day is missing. We celebrate it like any other holiday, which is wrong. We must celebrate our independence everyday, not just on one day of the year.

The doctrine of human equality reposes on this: that there is no man really clever who has not found that he is stupid.

Our sports are totally different, if Lance Armstrong himself were to come and train with us he'd be completely exhausted after half and hour.

The day breaks not, it is my heart.

If you think too much in the music you are too late.

I actually have more respect for people who are in the closet. You end up exposing so much of yourself because you have to talk about your sexual life. You shouldn't have to talk about it.

A real gimlet is half gin and half Rose's lime juice and nothing else.

I can't describe it, what I'm feeling and what I'm thinking. This means something. This is important.