Philosophy is an odd thing. When we use the word in everyday speech, you know, you sometimes hear it hilariously.

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

Success is possible, Failure is possible, But nothing is impossible.

We require from buildings two kinds of goodness: first, the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and pleasing in doing it.

A constitutional democracy is in serious trouble if its citizenry does not have a certain degree of education and civic virtue.

love is always in danger of being sentimentalized.

Dont take Portlandia too personally - Its just a stupid TV show

I always read the script, try to imagine myself in the role, then decide whether I have anything to give to the part. If you don't feel like that in the beginning, it is not going to go well.

Should I eat first or accuse the Master of the City of murder? Choices, choices. -Anita

Maybe a vague president and an incompetent and somewhat corrupt administration is what the nation needs.

It is impossible to translate poetry. Can you translate music?

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.