You would not enjoy Nietzsche, sir. He is fundamentally unsound.

What's the use of a great city having temptations if fellows don't yield to them?

Employers are like horses — they require management.

Well, you know, there are limits to the sacred claims of friendship.

Thanksgiving is a sure index of spiritual health.

If I weren't making documentary films, I suppose I'd be teaching.

Men. One minute they have their tongues down your throat and the next they're forbidding you from meeting your own father and criticizing your fashion choices.

Bankruptcy and repudiation are the springboards from which much of our civilization vaults and turns its somersets, but the savagestands on the unelastic plank of famine.

The outside world can be very tough.

It is not my words that I polish, but my ideas.

My iPod's unbelievable. Seriously. The kids have put most of the music on it but there's a complete mix of 80s rubbish and current day stuff.

We're seldom drawn to a character we admire; only to a personality we like.

I'm not claiming anything like sainthood - merely a native perception.

Michael Bates was a very funny actor; he'd served in India, could speak Urdu, and had great comic timing.