Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.

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

I don't want to be somebody's crush. If somebody likes me, I want them to like the real me, not what they think I am.

The smells of Christmas are the smells of childhood

Imperfection is my ticket, perfection is my pursuit.

Obtuseness is sometimes a virtue.

Death, vicious death, Leave a green branch for love.

We face an enemy that is brutal. There is no negotiation with these people. You can't try to talk reason into these totalitarians.

My ego's not the kind that says, 'I want to be an actor and be accepted as that.

There's nothing like spending an evening with an audience every night.

Never overlook the power of simplicity.

A man is only as good as what he loves most, right?