When I pass, speak freely of my shortcomings and my flaws. Learn from them, for I'll have no ego to injure.

No man should think himself a zero, and think he can do nothing about the state of the world.

I do hope your Christmas has had a little touch of Eternity in among the rush and pitter patter and all. It always seems such a mixing of this world and the next - but that after all is the idea!

I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.

I don't want to make statements about where I'm gonna be in 30 years. But as of right now, I definitely have a different relationship with the way I look. It's not all-consuming.

I live with the things that I love: art, furniture, and objects that I have collected throughout my travels.

I know that they're all unhappy because nobody loves the right person the way they should and because they don't understand that it's really their own self that they're mad at.

-'What do ties matter, Jeeves, at a time like this?' There is no time, sir, at which ties do not matter

You ought not attempt to cure the eyes without the head, or the head without the body, so neither ought you attempt to cure the body without the soul.

Them pains, when blues pains grab you, you'll sing the blues right.

Writing about unknown people means I spend a lot of time arguing to the reader about why it's worth knowing about them. That's challenging, but then the piece is pure discovery.