I would so hate to be a first-person character! Always on your guard, always having people read your thoughts!

Her majesty is one verb short of a sentence.

So you're going to have to ask yourselves on simple question: Which one of us is speaking now?

The course of true love rarely runs smooth.

I got mixed up with some oddness in my youth, and the long and short of it is that I can't shuffle off this mortal coil until I have read the ten most boring classics.

Truly competent Literary Detectives are as rare as truthful men, Mr. Tweed -- you can see her potential as clearly as I can. Frightened of someone stealing your thunder, perhaps?

We learn and grow Always building on what we know

Forgiveness is not always easy. At times, it feels more painful than the wound we suffered, to forgive the one that inflicted it. And yet, there is no peace without forgiveness.

Mediocrity is always in a rush; but whatever is worth doing at all is worth doing with consideration. For genius is nothing more nor less than doing well what anyone can do badly.

In terms of magnifying it and making it plausible, I'm a great believer in truth in comedy.

You can start your day over anytime.

Much suffering in hospitals is wasted.

Americans are sick and tired of political gamesmanship.

I think there is a total equality for me between painting a literary figure or Kate Moss or my Mum or a dog or a bird. To me, they are all absolutely equal.

To love our nothingness we must love everything in us that the proud man loves when he loves himself. But we must love it all for exactly the opposite reason.

The idea for a building or an object can come up just as quick, but there is a big difference in process.