If you love people, you take them on trust.

The family - that dear octopus from whose tentacles we never quite escape, nor, in our inmost hearts, ever quite wish to.

I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring.

Noble deeds and hot baths are the best cures for depression.

Time takes the ugliness and horror out of death and turns it into beauty.

What is it about the English countryside — why is the beauty so much more than visual? Why does it touch one so?

Contemplation seems to be about the only luxury that costs nothing.

It's a beautiful sight to see good dancers doing simple steps. It's a painful sight to see beginners doing complicated patterns.

Ham with mustard is a meal of glory

Like many other much-loved humans, they believed that they owned their dogs, instead of realizing that their dogs owned them.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer.

We can't act until we know who we are and what we believe.

It is important to understand the objective of every race. Sometimes it is important to win. Sometimes it is more than enough if you just complete the race.

There's a lot about records that you cannot feel from a CD.

The need for love lies at the very foundation of human existence.

The continuing shortages of housing inventory are driving the price gains. There is no evidence of bubbles popping.

I don't have any special passion for politics, it being a never-ending merry-go-round of bosses big and small, all generally mediocre. I actually find it boring.

Donald [Trump], you're not going to be able to insult your way to the presidency. That's not going to happen.

Never underestimate a man's ability to make you feel guilty for his mistakes.

The heavens and earth stay as they were; my heart Beats as it beat: the truth remains the truth.

Going forward, anything that Richard [Ayoade] asks me to do, I would be so honoured... even if it's sweeping the street because he's such a great person and a great friend.