What I prefer is an audience who listen. And are intelligent. Which I try and assume every audience is. And that if something goes wrong, it's generally my fault and not theirs.

People will kill you over time, and how they'll kill you is with tiny, harmless phrases, like 'be realistic.'

Money can't buy you love, but it can get you some really good chocolate ginger biscuits.

Black Books adheres to a more old fashioned, traditional sitcom format, which I think works, because in its own way, it's quite theatrical.

You’re not an adult at all - you're just a tall child holding a beer, having conversations you don't understand...

Don't do it! Stay away from your potential. You'll mess it up, it's potential, leave it. Anyway, it's like your bank balance - you always have a lot less than you think.

I'm quite a compulsive person-I only worked this out recently - I'm compulsive, but I'm also very indecisive. I don't know what I want, but I know that I want it now.

Oh how I hate you. I hate you so much it gives me energy. I have to get up early in the morning just to hate you, because there's not enough time in the day! Please GO AWAY!

I don't do drugs. If I want a rush I just stand up when I'm not expecting it.

I think you should, yeah. You should wash your beard, then shave it off, nail it to a Frisbee and fling it over a rainbow.

You try various things when you're growing up. I was an attache in the Foreign Service for a while and then I drove a bulldozer, but neither of those panned out for me so it had to be stand-up.

I am the shade. Through the dolent city, i flee. Through the eternal woe, i take flight..

A person's right to a job is as specious as his boss' right to success in business. There is no right to a minimum wage, just as there is no right to success in self-employment.

There is no sunset in a fascist country, because there is not a Sun in a fascist country!

Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness.

Death has been here and where death has been no light shall ever be .

American democracy and the Soviet system may peacefully exist side by side and compete with each other. But one cannot evolve into the other.

Silks, velvets, calicoes, and the whole lexicon of female fopperies.

Psychoanalysis can provide a theory of 'progress,' but only by viewing history as a neurosis.

Octavia Butler, of course, is brilliant and disturbing.

A thought Of that late death took all my heart for speech.