I thought, well, why am I giving up on my primary dream to work doubly hard, to do something as an alternative to what it really still want to?

I remember very clearly someone saying, 'Don't shake hands with the cactus,' and I thought, 'Well, why not? What could possibly go wrong?' Shaking hands is a friendly gesture.

Pull the hair on my head the wrong way, and I would be on my knees begging for mercy. I have very sensitive follicles.

I'm a high-functioning sociopath, do your research.

Looking for happiness is a sure way to sadness, I think. You have to take each moment as it comes.

Enjoy the journey of life and not just the endgame. I'm also a great believer in treating others as you would like to be treated.

Being a posh actor in England you cannot escape the class-typing from whatever side you look at it.

The further you get away from yourself, the more challenging it is. Not to be in your comfort zone is great fun.

You come into this world as you leave it, on your own. It's made me want to live a life slightly less ordinary.

I keep myself amused and others confused

If you have an over-preoccupation with perception and trying to please people's expectations, then you can go mad.

What pillow can one have like a good conscience?

Ethnic prejudice has no place in sports, and baseball must recognize that truth if it is to maintain stature as a national game.

It is... treading on dangerous ground to paint the picturesque as I am at times doing.

The shelf life of the modern hardback writer is somewhere between the milk and the yoghurt.

Slaves do not always welcome their deliverers. They become accustomed to being slaves. They would rather gear those ills they have

Success doesn't bring happiness. Only material stuff like money, cars and iPods can do that. And I've already got all that. So I have to find other ways to amuse myself.

The art of today is that which really belongs to us: it is our own reflection. In condemning it we but condemn ourselves.

(A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

Those who cling to life die, and those who defy death live.

Joy surfeited turns to sorrow.