The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

Is it true that you shouted at Professor Umbridge?""Yes.""You called her a liar?""Yes.""You told her He Who Must Not Be Named is back?""Yes.""Have a biscuit, Potter.

There are always unfavourable consequences to consuming unnatural foods.

breathtaking, adj. Those moments when we kiss and surrender for an hour before we say a single word.

We believe that the elements in the chemical formula of our creative work, problem, invention, and art, correspond to the challenges of our age.

In two months Joseph Kennedy had taken over my entire life, and I trusted him implicitly to make the most of it.

No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

Comcast began their tradition of volunteer service in 1997 when Comcast employees and their families participated in the Philadelphia Cares Day.

If I had been egotistical about the movies, I have been brought back to earth.

I don't enjoy being in Europe for weeks on end, so I just skip it.

The god-who-serves-ME requires flattery, not worship.