Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

Harbour love, not hate - don't let it contaminate your heart and conceal your beauty.

To live without a body!

I'd rather be pleasantly surprised than fatally disappointed.

I'm too old to be ignorant as I am." --Twelve-year-old Gabriella to the general, who does not want her to know about Emmett Till and the world's brutality.

My books are more about people experimenting with different identities and social models in a short-term way before they can break through to something authentic.

And we believe that our policies toward Iraq simply are to protect the region and to protect Iraq's people and neighbors.

The suburbs dream of violence.

I'd like to do my first record I ever made, A Church, a Courtroom, and Then Goodbye.

Dysfunctional muscles are generally not diseased, aging, or broken. They are starved of motion.

No one tells me what to think. I think for me.