Politics has got too personal, too nasty, in Britain, as it has in America.

My whole thing is to entertain, make people laugh and to forget about the real world for awhile.

We must come to the point where we realize the concept of race is a false one. There is only one race, the human race.

We have the most beautiful planet - the Rockies, the purple fields of the United States, the Lake District, the Pyrenees, the turquoise seas of the tropics.

You do not need a therapist if you own a motorcycle, any kind of motorcycle!

I believe that if a man dies with a single penny still sitting in the bank, he's a fool.

Heaven to me is percussion and bass, a screaming guitar and a burbling Hammond B-3 organ. It's a soup I love being immersed in.

I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

I had a slight touch of Tourette's, which means you talk to yourself and bark and cry out at night.

I love to come in and play with a wig or glasses or clothes. I love using props. I'm from the Peter Sellers school of trying to prepare for the character.

I am a Spiritualist, a proud wearer of the Spiritualist badge. Mediums and psychic research have gone on for many, many years.

Sandwiches, ' she said, 'like diamonds, are forever.

I don’t really want fame and fortune

For whence did Dante take the materials for his hell but from this our actual world? And yet he made a very proper hell of it.

The natural tendency of all human behavior is toward the path of least resistance. When you resist this tendency, you become stronger and more powerful.

Those who are in love with the present can be cruel and corrupt but not genuinely vicious. They cannot be methodically and consistently ruthless.

In my experience an appreciative letter from a fellow writer means a lot.

It's incredible how much cinema can do. We forget.

Which is heavier: a soldier's pack or a slave's chains?

I envy animals for two things - their ignorance of evil to come, and their ignorance of what is said about them.

It is evident that no derivative laws can teach the young student to see and apprehend colour in nature. His perception needs development as urgently as his muscles.