There were days when we used to say, what was in today's paper is tomorrow's fish-and-chip paper.When I became successful, I enjoyed myself a little.

I did not become successful in my work through embracing or engaging in celebrity culture. I never signed away my privacy in exchange for success.

If you chase something too desperately, it eludes you.

When I was a student I was very, very ambitious, completely immersed in my comedy career. I never had that period of reckless hedonism that you should get out of your system in your youth.

I don't like big feet. It reminds me of gammon.

If things don't come easy to you, you have to pull a rabbit out of a hat.

Me, myself, personally, I like to keep myself private. I have never said I am a paragon of virtue, a model of morality. I simply do what I do.

The truth is somewhere in the middle of funny and serious.

The trick is always to write in pairs because if at least two people find it funny, you've immediately halved the odds of it not being funny.

I think if you try to look for something to show off as an actor, vanity can get the better of you.

I am of the very last generation who didn't have computers at school. As we grow old we'll become something of an aberration.

Intelligence is a way of thinking, not a choice of words.

Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.

So the world ended.And the next one began.They were infinite.They were the beginning and the ending

To carry the atmosphere of God’s Glory is to extend it to the whole earth

I received free health care.

Writing is one way to go about thinking, and the practice and habit of writing not only drain the mind but supply it, too.

There are winners, there are losers and there are people who have not yet learned how to win.

Somewhere beyond the sink-hole, past the magnolia, under the live oaks, a boy and a yearling ran side by side, and were gone forever.

Only enemies speak the truth; friends and lovers lie endlessly, caught in the web of duty.

Mr. Fitzgerald-I believe that is how he spells his name-seems to believe that plagiarism begins at home.