In fact I'd like to go back and live in Shakespeare's London.

We seem to have reached the age where life stops giving us things and starts taking them away.

I love a really good storyline.

In Hollywood films everything is tidied up at the end with clean lines and clean character definitions. It's sort of unsatisfying.

Other people have a much better idea of what I might do than I.

I haven't got a writer's discipline.

When you research someone, you actually get beyond your own preconceptions and become aware of the human being other than the image. You become empathetic and sympathetic in turn.

You can't be angsty all day or else it becomes a sort of pale angst.

I see myself as a small 'l' liberal, but not coalition liberal, necessarily.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

I think we all have a selfish gene which rises to the top, sometimes. But then we're also all capable of a sudden magnanimity.

It's gonna hurt, now, " said Amy. "anything dead coming back to life hurts.

In return, society rewards those who give it what it wants. That is why how much money people have earned is a rough measure of how much they gave society what it wanted.

A man living without conflicts, as if he never lives at all.

The future's a weirder place than we thought it would be when we were little kids.

Literature doesn't matter! The only thing that matters is money and getting your teeth fixed!

What ever beauty may be it has for its basis order and for its essence unity Beauty is only skin deep, but ugly goes clean to the bone.

In this league, experience means a lot.

And I will make thee beds of roses, And a thousand fragrant posies.

I don't see how the study of language and literature can be separated from the question of free speech, which we all know is fundamental to our society.

There was a sound in the background like a distant sheep coughing gently on a mountainside. Jeeves sailing into action.