In the course of an average lifetime anyone growing up in a house with such a clock will hear the tune over a million times.

I'm always looking for meaningful one-night stands.

The best car safety device is a rear-view mirror with a cop in it.

Volvo — they're boxy but they're good.

Not everyone who drinks is a poet. Some of us drink because we're not poets.

Music is the surest way of reaching someone else's heart.

Jaguar — For men who'd like hand-jobs from beautiful women they hardly know.

I wish I had a dime for every dime I have.

I am trapped in this body, and there is nothing I can do about it.

I can hear the music all around me.

I certainly did feel inferior. Because of class. Because of strength. Because of height. I guess if I'd been able to hit somebody in the nose, I wouldn't have been a comic.

Just in case you’re wondering, ” Gage says, breaking the silence, “this alliance of ours doesn’t mean I like you.”“Feeling’s mutual.” Julian tosses him a disdainful look.

The man incapable of contemplation cannot be an artist, but only a skillful workman.

I was brought up Catholic, and my family is still very religious.

I find if my body feels well and I exercise regularly, I think better, work better and feel better.

Tyranny knows no restraint of appetite.

In college I studied essays with a poet, and so I think my interpretation of the genre was always going to be a little off-kilter.

I quite liked Sharkey and George and then there was a cartoon with rapper MC Hammer in it - Hammertime - I loved that cartoon, it was genius! They don't make cartoons like that anymore.

God can be seen Even by the poorest fool, But not by the self-styled, God-arguing Intellectual giants.

To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.

If the mind is illumined, there is clear blue sky in a dark room. If the thoughts are muddled, there are malevolent ghosts in broad daylight.