I think biography can be more personal than fiction, and certainly can be more expressive.

The English can laugh and at the same time strike you down, without the least compunction. It is the secret of their success as a nation.

I just wanted to be an ordinary, middle-class person. When I was at Cambridge I made great efforts to lose the last remnants of my cockney accent.

There is no humiliation worse than the consciousness of a wasted life. It stains the spirit, forestalls hope, and destroys any motive for action or change.

You don't have to be brought up in a grand house to have a sense of the past, and I truly believe that there are certain people to whom or through whom the territory - the place, the past - speaks.

I don't believe necessarily the past is in the past. It's eternal, it's all around us.

Every book for me is a chapter in the long book which will finally be closed on the day of my death.

The endless chatter of this journey had wearied me.

Yes, I have inherited the past because I have acknowledged it at last? And, now that I have come to understand it, I no longer need to look back.

I believe that the gods themselves are frightened of the world which they have fashioned.

One can forgive Shakespeare anything, except one's own bad lines.

Nobody ever told them they had a right to an opinion.

I'm thinking there should be a dating site called "Tap That" - Jonathan "Jack" McVoy

Charity ain't giving people what you wants to give, it's giving people what they need to get.

I would like to thank the people who encouraged me to draw army cartoons at a time when the gag man's conception of the army was one of mean ole sergeants and jeeps which jump over mountains.

I have to do a show which is of interest to me, or else I'm lost.

Idea is to constantly raise the bar, push the boundaries. Fitness is ultimately a journey, not a destination.

Ripe old age, cheerful, useful, and understanding, is one of the finest influences in the world.

I think people who write for kids, we have that ability to go back into our own lives.

I am a very nerdy guy. I understand that it's easier to cast me as a nerdy guy than an action star - although I would love to be an action star!

Once a mistake .... Twice ... A failure .