If you can write a character who is attractive but morally reprehensible, then you've got a character. It's got to feel like people I know and it doesn't just become a bag of tricks.

A lifetime’s work, to try and say one thing that’s true.

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

I'm English and love England. Whenever I'm there, I'm always seeing the present but feeling its past.

I love Stewart Lee's 'Comedy Vehicle' on BBC2. The guy is a genius.

There is a lot to learn about love and positions.

I think steak is the ultimate comfort food, and if you're going out for one, that isn't the time to scrimp on calories or quality.

There is true freedom in letting go.

The truth is, some of these comments, when you actually ask 'well, this is based on what? This notion that Obama's a socialist, for example?' Nobody can really give you a good answer.

I am not aware that payment, or even favors, however gracious, bind any man's soul and conscience in questions of highest morality and highest importance.

A painting probably is the most shocking increase in value, from what it costs to make to what you sell it for.

What a man must do is realize that his continued belief in the inferiority of women is going to produce a type of karma that is going to hold him back, and already has.

At my concerts most of the chicks are looking for liberation, they think I'm gonna show 'em how to do it.

You can't be a storyteller and a speechwriter at the same time.

Don't moan, don't whine, don't blame. Just get on with it.