Tate University - A large football stadium, with a college attached.

The more trouble you get a man into, the more comedy you get out of him.

The man who tries to be funny is lost. To lose one's naturalness is always to lose the sympathy of your audience.

The pain was considerable, but trivial compared with my mental state.

I am just turning 40 and taking my time about it.

An expert is someone who knows some of the worst mistakes that can be made in his subject and how to avoid them.

As human beings in general ... I don't think we've grown that much. Technology wise, we are getting too intelligent for our own good.

I like the fact that New York looks a bit backwards, toward the Old World, rather than resolutely forwards.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

My vocabulary is adequate for writing notes and keeping journals but absolutely useless for an active moral life.

Giving me a a new idea is like handing a cretin a gun, but I do thank you anyhow, bang bang.

I used to cut guitars out of a piece of cardboard to copy the Strat look. I used a backwards tennis racket for a while and graduated to the cardboard cutout.

I'm not going to waste my time trying 'break' America, you know what I mean? Too many people have died trying to break America. America doesn't break unless it wants to.

Genuine blasphemy, genuine in spirit and not purely verbal, is the product of partial belief, and is as impossible to the complete atheist as to the perfect Christian.

Was it the forgetfulness of old age or personal incapacity that made the man able to say please but not thank you?