No visiting angel, or explorer from another planet could have guessed that this bland orb teemed with vermin, with world-mastering, self-torturing, incipiently angelic beasts.

So might we ourselves look down into some rock-pool where lowly creatures repeat with naive zest dramas learned by their ancestors æons ago.

They grew up, moulded by the harsh or kindly pressure of their fellows, to be either well nurtured, generous, sound, or mentally crippled, bitter, unwittingly vindictive.

True art is a remedy of curiousity and it rise above all expectations.

Description before prescription is the trait of a leader!!!

What you demand from storytelling is a moral - even political - import. I tend to shun that didactic aspect.

I'm more influenced by characters than standups. I love strong, comic women, because it's so hard and I have so much respect for anyone who can do it.

Peter did not feel very brave; indeed, he felt he was going to be sick. But that made no difference to what he had to do.

I only tour in short bursts, I'm only ever away from my family and three daughters for a month or two.

If I dream I have you, I have you, for all our joys are but fantastical.

What's impossible to all humanity may be possible to the metaphysics and physiology of angels.

The fights I've learned the most were always the fights I lost.