Theres a fine line between playing a dim-witted character and playing a cartoon.

Kissing making out on the ground Bali Hai Bali Hai Bali Hai!

Stand-up would be my worst nightmare.

Terrible is the situation of a small country that stands alone.

For how can you remember the feel of pleasure or pain or choking emotion? You can remember only that you had them.

To change yourself, let go of what you are and accept what you want to be.

The reality of a question is inevitably more complicated than we would like to suppose.

I'm interested in the movement of the eyes across the painting.

If you don't have faith, you have nothing.

The next time you face a room full of strangers . . . you might tell yourself that some of them are just friends waiting to be found.

Very suddenly. Yes, quite suddenly, I didn't feel like I could handle my feeling of aloneness.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

I get plenty of time to re-engage with the world I'm trying to depict, so I'm not always living in these parallel worlds.