I like the immaterial world. I like to live among thoughts and images of the past and the possible, and even of the impossible, now and then.

There are two reasons for drinking wine...when you are thirsty, to cure it; the other, when you are not thirsty, to prevent it... prevention is better than cure.

Seamen three! what men be ye? Gotham's three Wise Men we be. Whither in your bowl so free? To rake the moon from out the sea. The bowl goes trim. The moon doth shine, And our ballast is old wine.

Clouds on clouds, in volumes driven, curtain round the vault of heaven.

The juice of the grape is the liquid quintessence of concentrated sunbeams.

The waste of plenty is the resource of scarcity.

He kept at true good humor's mark The social flow of pleasure's tide: He never made a brow look dark, Nor caused a tear, but when he died.

Marriage may often be a stormy lake, but celibacy is almost always a muddy horsepond.

The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter.

I never failed to convince an audience that the best thing they could do was to go away.

Sir, I have quarrelled with my wife; and a man who has quarrelled with his wife is absolved from all duty to his country.

Death is a lot like prom - loud, overdone, and although the guy you came with was cool, you never know who'll end up taking you home.

It is through your presence that creates your reality. What am I creating? I am a co-creator.

Vegemite is pretty good if you've got the right spread of butter and you spread your Vegemite light. Sometimes people spread it too thick and it's not the right consistency for it to be what it is.

I can't talk politics with my cousin because he's such a hypocrite. He's against the death penalty and he hanged himself.

And Tragedy should blush as much to stoop To the low mimic follies of a farce, As a grave matron would to dance with girls.

It was so hot today that Burger King was singing, "if you want it your way, cook it yourself".

If I could act in theater, my whole life, and never act in film or television again, and just direct the rest of my life, I would gladly do that.

Nobody did a campaign for me. I was nominated out of the blue and won out of the blue. So that was it.

When science is learned in love, and its powers are wielded by love, they will appear the supplements and continuations of the material creation.

Desire, even in its wildest tantrums, can neither persuade me it is love nor stop me from wishing it were.