The Brit abroad is always the voice of caution. Persons of other cultures are known to be undisciplined, prone to leaning out of car windows and cooking with garlic.

And don't tell me the end justifies the means because it doesn't. We never reach the end. All we ever get is means. That's what we live with.

That's what you get for ignoring the beauty of Tupperware.

I have known heaven, and now I am in hell, and there are mimes.

The tree of nonsense is watered with error, and from its branches swing the pumpkins of disaster.

Ninjas are silly. They are the flower fairies of gong fu and karate.

Photography is without mercy--though it's nonsense to say it does not lie. Rather, it lies in a particular, capricious way which makes beggars of ministers and gods of cat's meat men.

We need to create the institutions that will support the society we want to live in. The only answer is collective action.

I love you forever. I am sorry I cannot love you now.

Children, bored and opinionated, are scholars of the most dogmatic stripe.

Law is error, you see. It's an attempt to write down a lot of things everyone ought to know anyway.

Luckily, even as a young man not yet become himself, John Bridgens had two things besides indecision that kept him from self-destruction - books and a sense of irony.

Nature is never static. It is always changing. Everything is in a constant state of flux. Nothing endures. Everything is in the process of either coming into being or expiring.

We say sound things when we do not strive to say to say extraordinary ones.

Each act of unfaithfulness toward our inner being is a blot on our souls. If we continue to be unfaithful, our souls are eventually torn apart and we slowly bleed to death.

Education is very political, because when you educate the people, then you have a country that you can't fool anymore.

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises.

Ultimately, the dollars will have to come from television. Will it come from television tomorrow, I don't know.

You should always think about things that excite you and that you can learn from.

The key to skeleton is to find the line, and I think I spend most of training figuring out where that sweet spot is.

You choke my days, I'll choke yours.