Only dull people are brilliant at breakfast

To love oneself is the beginning of a lifelong romance.

To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect.

I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.

this woman is a genius in the day time and a beauty at night

It takes great courage to see the world in all its tainted glory, and still to love it. And even more courage to see it in the one you love

Morality is simply the attitude we adopt towards people we personally dislike.

There is nothing like race, is there?

I will love you always, because you will always be worthy of love.

I love talking about nothing, father. It is the only thing I know anything about.

Indeed, as a rule, everybody turns out to be somebody else.

In love, no question is ever preposterous.

Justice in a fallen world is not equality of outcome but equal treatment under a fair law.

My responsibility is to truth and beauty.

Well, if you're true to yourself you're going to be true to everyone else.

An experience that changes nothing is hardly worth having.

The Biblical vision is not so much concerned with life after death but about life after life after death.

[David Tennant's] Doctor has such humanity, he seems to understand us and he's very warm, so he's a comforting Doctor to be with, and he enables us to be slightly scarier than we had been.

I knew I was in the vicinity of a serious lesson, if not about how to live life, then at least how to put some poetry into your craven retreat from it.

Knowing now what goes into making a successful artist, it's disheartening.

Ketchup left overnight on dinner plates has a longer half-life than radioactive waste.