I never made a decision in my life that wasn't one hundred per cent selfish.

We are most alive when we're in love.

Life is a nacho. It can be yummy-crunchy or squishy-yucky. It just depends on how long it takes for you to start eating it.

Rain is grace; rain is the sky descending to the earth; without rain, there would be no life.

You cannot help but learn more as take the world into your hands. Take it up reverently, for it is and old piece of clay, with millions of thumbprints on it.

A leader is one who, out of madness or goodness, volunteers to take upon himself the woe of the people. There are few men so foolish, hence the erratic quality of leadership in the world.

Most of American life consists of driving somewhere and then returning home, wondering why the hell you went.

The scissors cut the long-grown hair; The razor scrapes the remnant fuzz. Small-jawed, weak-chinned, big-eyed, I stare At the forgotten boy I was.

It is easy to love people in memory; the hard thing is to love them when they are there in front of you.

Inspiration arrives as a packet of material to be delivered.

So much love, too much love, it is our madness, it is rotting us out, exploding us like dandelion polls.

May you live forever, and may I never die.

A glass of whisky in Scotland in the thirties cost less than a cup of tea.

I don't think traveling back in time on an empty stomach is a good idea.

When things are not going the way you want them to go, you start to press.

Women are the only ones who will be able to eliminate the patriarchy, and when that happens all of us will win, men as much as women.

False preachers are worse than deflowerers of virgins.

Once he had drawn first blood, his war against the property of the state lost all its moral resonance.

A great many people go after success simply for the shiny prizes it brings...And nowhere is it pursued more ardently than in the city of New York.

I love the acting community at Cambridge. It's really quite committed and serious, since the days of Derek Jacobi and Ian McKellen right through to Emma Thompson and Hugh Laurie.

Music-hall songs provide the dull with wit, just as proverbs provide them with wisdom.