I think that women just have a primeval instinct to make soup, which they will try to foist on anybody who looks like a likely candidate.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

The quality of our lives lives, depends on the quality of our thoughts.

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

O lovely Sisters! is it true That they are all inspired by you And write by inward magic charm'd And high enthusiasm warm'd?

What a fool you must be," said my head to my heart, or my sterner to my softer self.

As a world view, Darwinism cannot of course be refuted, since Faith is, always has been, and always will be, stronger than facts

When you do something that you know is authentic - embrace it, run with it, and trust yourself before the critics.

I think a story is an attention grabber. I think it's a truth conveyor. Those are two great features of a good story.

I think getting stoned has made me buy a lot of bad albums, because when I'm stoned I think everything is amazing.

Relationships give us a reason to live. Revenge.

There is an immense, painful longing for a broader, more flexible, fuller, more coherent, more comprehensive account of what we human beings are, who we are and what this life is for.