A beverage of leisure is a serious business, ” Shane Bowermaster was known to declare. “There can be no product of pleasure without the inverse on the end of the producer.

We believe that religions are basically the same…they only differ on matters of creation, sin, heaven, hell, God, and salvation.

Now listen, we need to be quiet as mice. No, quieter than that. As quiet as . . . as . . .” “Dead mice?” Reynie suggested. “Perfect, ” said Kate with an approving nod. “As quiet as dead mice.

In a soulmate we find not company, but a completed solitude.

I think that my ideas of the world are that it's random and cruel but kind of quite comical really, and therefore the humour, in a sense, springs from that.

It is not a disaster to be unable to capture your ideal, but it is a disaster to have no ideal to capture.

Most believe that a satisfactory future requires a return to an idealized past, a past which never in fact existed.

The Champions League is more interesting to watch than international football and the quality is superior as well.

Call me a nerd if you like, but I do find it hard to leave home without my laptop and a good book.

Never look at the trombones, you'll just encourage them.

Speak with the language of love.