Stories are a different kind of true.

Scared is what you're feeling. Brave is what you're doing.

If I was made of cake I'd eat myself before somebody else could.

Everybody's damaged by something.

Maybe I’m a human, but I’m a me-and-Ma as well.

People don't always want to be with people. It gets tiring.

People move around so much in the world, things get lost.

Everyone's got a different story.

... where there's one there's ten.'That's crazy math.

I think she was too tired to play anymore, she was in a hurry to get to Heaven so she didn't wait, why didn't she wait for me?

This is a bad story.”“Sorry. I’m really sorry. I shouldn’t have told you.”“No, you should, ” I say.“But—”“I don’t want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

The kind of love that offers its life so easily, so stupidly is always the love that is not returned.

Later he´ll be drunk in extremis and will only be able to speak the esperanto of alcoholics, which is a language full of stutterings from the geological layers of our animal ancestors

Look, this is helping me out quite a bit, but could you just get to the punishment part? We're at the end of World War Two in history, and I can't wait to find out who wins.

You can't have a rigid view that all new taxes are evil.

Because I'm English, I try not to make any purely American references, because I want to limit how much I'm pretending to be American.

That machine took my money!' I said. 'I must have revenge!

Don't be scared to walk alone. Don't be scared to like it.

I don’t care what you are, Gem. I want you. I love you.

I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

With or without the Royals, we are not Americans. Nor are we British. Or French. Or Void. We are something else. And the sooner we define this, the better.