If you don't know the exact moment when the lights will go out, you might as well read until they do.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Remember you?” I croaked. “I came back for you

When you are lost in the right way, you don't go back to being found in the wrong way.

If funkytown was a trailerpark, this guy would be a double-wide.

My mixed-race background made me a broad person, able to relate to different cultures. But any woman of colour, even a mixed colour, is seen as black in America. So that's how I regard myself.

For the world you are someone, but for someone you are the world.

If you're informed, you make an informed choice. You understand the quality of certain things and you understand the history of certain things.

The reason dance has held such an ageless magic for the world is that it has been the symbol of the performance of living.

Divine opportunities are all around you every day. Make a conscious effort today to show kindness to someone.

I'm just suggesting that when you're faced with fear and anxiety, don't medicate. Meditate instead.

I've never met an American who wanted to build an empire.