Television gives us the gift to see ourselves as we'd like to be seen.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

When you pray you rise to meet in the air those who are praying at that very hour, and whom save in prayer you may not meet.

Impartiality is to accept that we are partial.

I have been over into the future, and it works.

Morality can muddle mystical understanding and virtue is only necessary in so far as it favours success. All wisdom must be encompassed in order to achieve enlightenment.

The individual is foolish; the multitude, for the moment is foolish, when they act without deliberation; but the species is wise, and, when time is given to it, as a species it always acts right.

What is more humiliating than finding the object of your love unworthy?

I'm the most low-maintenance person on the road.

I see myself as a technical person who chose a great project and a great way of doing that project.

Now we have Republicans - to one degree or another - working as hard as the Democrats are to defeat Donald Trump.

In insecure relationships, we disguise our vulnerabilities so our partner never really sees us.