I've been going to Granada for many years and 12 years ago bought a house a few miles outside the city.

If I won the lottery I'd start a charity that helped little family hardware stores, cobblers and fruit shops open in city centres.

My name is Alexei Yuri Gagarin Siege of Stalingrad Glorious Five Year Plan Sputnik Tractor Moscow Dynamo Back Four Balowski. Me Dad was a bit of a Communist, know what I mean?

Honestly, sometimes I get really fed up of my subconscious - it's like it's got a mind of its own.

People are more violently opposed to fur than leather because it's safer to harass rich women than motorcycle gangs.

Americans have different ways of saying things. They say 'elevator', we say 'lift'... they say 'President', we say 'stupid psychopathic git.

Yuri Gagarin, the first man in space, may have had his charms, but he really couldn't be considered hip.

There's a part of me that still hates everything, and my natural view default setting is still very cynical and dark

If sitcoms were easy to write, there'd be a lot of good ones, and there aren't.

Dire Straits is a great band. Someone tells you they like ""Brothers in Arms"" and immediately you know they're a stupid annoying git.

Israel is the Jimmy Saville of nation states.

There are lies in tears. The ones we weep most loudly are usually for ourselves, yet how easily we can pass them off as grief.

Exercise not only tones the muscles, but also refines the brain and revives the soul.

For the first time in his life, he felt exactly what he was, and he was not impressed.

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If you can really hear more of the root cause, maybe there are ways that we can get beyond it, or destroy it, actually.

The man who does not betake himself at once and desperately to sawing is called a loafer, though he may be knocking at the doors of heaven all the while.

There are probably some things I could do to keep my flexibility up, but I'd rather smoke, drink diet Cokes and eat.

Cynicism is full of naive disappointments.

Outside books, we avoid colorful characters.

Storytelling is the greatest activity of any culture. Storytelling is how you build a family, how you pass along identity.