Since I had started to break down all my writing and get rid of all facility and try to make instead of describe, writing had been wonderful to do.

They say the seeds of what we will do are in all of us, but it always seemed to me that in those who make jokes in life the seeds are covered with better soil and with a higher grade of manure.

I always worked until I had something done and I always stopped when I knew what was going to happen next. That way I could be sure of going on the next day.

The people that I liked and had not met went to the big cafes because they were lost in them and no one noticed them and they could be alone in them and be together.

I belong to this notebook and this pencil.

Creation's probably overrated. After all, God made the world in only six days and rested on the seventh.

We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.

In those days, there was no money to buy books.

For a poet he threw a very accurate milk bottle.

People were always the limiters of happiness except for the very few that were as good as spring itself.

I had never known any man to die while speaking in terza-rima

We incline to see history through the lives of great men. That inclination blinds us to the real complexity …

Seek more strength for weaker spine No grape grows on sinner’s vine

I can complain because rose bushes have thorns or rejoice because thorn bushes have roses. It's all how you look at it.

Your wedding is your red carpet moment, and while brides definitely can take some chances with style, you don't want to look like a fad.

Cocktails are society's most enduring invention!

I love every minute of fatherhood, staying up all night, changing nappies, kids crying, I find it really funny and inspiring. It connects you to the world in a new way.

There's always a melody running around in my mind and my brain; and I'm really thankful for it.

You can't have responsibility and you can't have us living up to our ideals unless it's based on a fairly common acceptance of truth, of what is true - what is the truth here?

In comedy, my strengths are improvisation.

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.