The English language is like London: proudly barbaric yet deeply civilised, too, common yet royal, vulgar yet processional, sacred yet profane.

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

Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up.

When I first met Billy I thought about sucking his eyes right out of their sockets. They’re like turquoise gum drops.

Your mind and habits will create either barriers or bridges to a better future.

I am convinced of the validity of contradiction. There are many worlds. Each is true, at its time, in its own fashion

My high-school dream was to be in a band, pay my rent and eat - and I've been able to do that for 20 years. So I'm completely content.

Grief and disappointment are like hate: they make men ugly with self-pity and bitterness. And how selfish they make us too.

Everyone I know who is having success in film right now is there because of persistence.

Sometimes, all it takes is one gesture, one word, to change the course of someone's life. Even if you know it won't last forever.

Republican candidates had to appeal to their base, which is by and large elderly white people arguing with empty chairs.

If we become conceited through great success, some day the trout will take us down a peg.