You know, your species [humans] has the most amazing capacity for self-deception, matched only by its ingenuity in trying to destroy itself.

What do you think you're doing?

Coffee arrived and the espresso was excellent, like an aromatic electric fence.

In the winter she curls up around a good book and dreams away the cold.

This is your brain on magic.

For a terrifying moment I thought he was going to hug me, but fortunately we both remembered we were English just in time. Still, it was a close call.

On the plus side, there were no rioters in sight but on the minus side this was probably because everywhere I looked was on fire.

Holy paranormal activity, Nightingale - to the Jag mobile.

The clever people at CERN are smashing particles together in the hope that Doctor Who will turn up and tell them to stop

That which does not kill us has to get up extra early in the morning if it wants to get us next time.

This I know for a fact: the reason African women have children is so that there's someone else to do the housework.

Life is mostly pain and struggle

An artist may visit a museum but only a pedant can live there.

My movements to the chair of government will be accompanied by feelings not unlike those of a culprit who is going to the place of his execution.

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o' clock runs a chance of leaving the other half undone.

My psychiatrist prescribed a game of golf as an antidote to the feelings of euphoria I experience from time to time.

If you're a writer, you just keep following the path - keep going deeper and deeper into the things that interest you.

As an actor, you go through life thinking "This stop is the last stop," so you just put your heart and soul into everything and do your best work.

As sick as it sounds, a reality show might help, actually. At least then people could get the truth.

Perhaps the most important thing we ever give each other is our attention

Who are the violets now That strew the lap of the new-come spring?