The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

Be knowledgeable but humble. Be wise and simple.

When, and only when, you clearly see the inner roots to an outer condition, can you change them and thus it.

Recognize and beware of the snare.

Whiffle [whine and wheeze and snuff and sniffle]: The annoying scratchy sound made by weepy feminists as they lament the sufferings of women and, houndlike, sniff out evidence of male oppression.

Priority number one for too many of us is not the glory of God but the blessing of ourselves.

Hip-hop is mostly what I listen to, other than jazz. I've given up on pop music and indie rock.

A cult classic... both a celebration of the unlimited potential of the comic book form, and a perfect melding of inspiring, iconoclastic imaginations.

So is the savage buffalo, especially delighting in dark places, where he can wallow in the mud and slake his thirst without much trouble; and here also we find the wild pig.

I'm generally a very annoyingly positive person, in real life. I think that might have something to do with my gravitation towards angry human beings on screen.

Yet writers say, as in the sweetest bud The eating canter dwells, so eating love Inhabits in the finest wits of all.