You get crushes on people. You have to see them every day in that week. They're a fantastic person, and it could be a man or a woman.

I'd much rather have sat there and just been a fly on the wall, instead of having to smile at people. I'd rather have been a waitress. Just gone round and stared at people.

People ask could I have written the show I wrote in 1990 now, and I don't think I could. I think it's much easier to offend people nowadays. People have grown quite sensitive, I think.

No, sometimes we just have to take liberties because the idea was so good. I wish we'd just gone with the idea that Patsy had been a man. It would have been fantastic.

The reason they keep it so tight is that no one liked them, so that without each other, actually, they couldn't exist. They support each other. They support their flaws and everything else.

Instant coffee is just old beans that have been cremated.

I think people love to be noticed, they love to feel included. A lot of people are flattered if you, you know, if you make jokes about them, or I think because it means they're known.

At home, I relax by gardening, or just pottering.

Me just being myself in public or on TV is the biggest nightmare in the world.

I grew up with a mother who, every time she saw something, would say, I'm going to look that up. And I've become that person - I've become the reference-book person.

Well, I'm lucky because, you see, I'll probably bounce back from this role.

A true philosopher must never give up.

Live on no complex dreams... When the meaning of what you want to do isn't clear, it means there is absolutely no meaning! Simplicity with curiosity is the lap on which success rests!

You know how I get angry sometimes? That's because it's the only way I can still feel. And I need to test myself, to make sure I'm really here.

The last act is bloody, however pleasant all the rest of the play is: a little earth is thrown at last upon our head, and that is the end forever.

Ideally you do want people to treat you professionally in return, but not everyone necessarily does that.

Books are to be distinguished by the grandeur of their topics even more than by the manner in which they are treated.

Texas is a state of mind. Texas is an obsession. Above all else, Texas is a nation in every sense of the word.

I was the first person Donald Trump threatened to sue on Twitter.

Essentially we need a new social consensus for economic reform as New Labour has achieved in Britain.

The hearing that is only in the ears is one thing. The hearing of the understanding is another. But the hearing of the spirit is not limited to any one faculty to the ear, or to the mind.