It's worth turning up to an awards gig if you know you've won one but, since you never do know, it's not worth it.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

Every great journey stimulates great faith and great joy.

That's half of your trouble, " muttered the crocodile. "You believe everything's true.""That's because everything is, " replied Mr. Bacchus.

Oh, my child, can you not see? You must let go of yourself. For if a seed wishes to live, it must sacrifice itself and grow outward, not inward.

As hard as it is to face your fears, it's even harder to surrender to them and walk in their shadows for the rest of your life.

One does not set out with the idea that I've just had a great idea and now I'm going to go and carry it out. Almost all art that's made like that doesn't go anywhere.

You know what happens to girls who loves lost boys? They become lost themselves.

I write any sort of rubbish which will cover the main outlines of the story, then I can begin to see it.

She is pretty to walk with, And witty to talk with, And pleasant, too, to think on.

It seems like at some point you'd run out of awful.

People often ask me if I know the secret of success and if I could tell others how to make their dreams come true. My answer is, you do it by working.