Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Because of literature we can decipher, at least partially, the hieroglyphic that existence tends to be for the great majority of human beings.

Milk without fat is like nonalcoholic Scotch.

Wicked men obey out of fear. good men, out of love

Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.

The proud man counts his newspaper clippings, the humble man his blessings.

I worry about my voice 24/7 when I'm on tour. It's like a pitcher and his arm. It's constantly the thing that my whole life revolves around.

The young gentleman is correct," he said. Halt raised an eyebrow. "He may be correct, and he is undoubtedly young. But he's no gentleman." ~Halt and General Sapristi speaking of Will

I'm ready for anything. That's probably why it never happens.

My writing has a lot to do with who I am, and what my life is like, and my relationships to people.

I think so much about everything. I'm obsessive.