There are occasions when it pays better to fight and be beaten than not to fight at all.

In trench warfare five things are important: firewood, food, tobacco, candles, and the enemy. In winter on the Zaragoza front they were important in that order, with the enemy a bad last

Hitherto, the rights and wrongs had seemed so beautifully simple.

A fat man eating quails while children are begging for bread is a disgusting sight, but you are less likely to see it when you are within the sound of the guns.

If you want to find a way, you have to go

Once you start working with a particular actor, that actor becomes very present in your mind as your mind as you're writing subsequent episodes.

It is brilliant going to the theatre and being forced to sit and listen and think about life. It can be almost a near-religious experience.

In my own words, I played some significant part in changing the social-sexual values of our time. I had a lot of fun in the process.

Most of the comics that I talk to I've never talked to for more than ten minutes ever. So 95 percent of the time you're really hearing the first conversation between me and that guy on the podcast.

You can tell a lot about a person by what’s on their playlist.

City of rest! - as it seems to our modern senses, - how is it possible that so busy, so pitiless and covetous a life as history shows us, should have gone to the making and the fashioning of Venice!

Oddly enough I never used to suffer from depression on cold, gray, cloudy days like this. I feel as if nature is in harmony with me, that it reflected my soul.

If things are nice there is probably a good reason why they are nice: and if you do not know at least one reason for this good fortune, then you still have work to do.

Where money is an idol, to be poor is a sin.