EXTREMELY FUNNY! A SUPER-VIRTUOSO! I expected to enjoy 'The Two and Only,' but I didn't expect to be touched, much less to find my eyes growing moist.

I know that luck has a way of happening to people who shoot high, who never sell themselves short.

A critic should always strive to recapture the sense of wonder and surprise with which he first beheld a now-familiar work of art.

Whether early or late, the Parker novels are all superlative literary entertainments.

This impeccably researched study of the classic black insult game may be the funniest work of serious scholarship ever published.

I'm gonna fight for you, until your heart stops beating.

Nothing succeeds like failure.

I think there are a lot of people who really want to be famous, they really do. I don't. It sort of gets in the way of the everyday things that I do.

But I think it is a serious issue to wonder about the other platonic absolutes of say beauty and morality.

This is a very, very conservative judge who in his dissenting opinions is overwhelmingly likely to be more conservative than the majority.

Everyone's a little crazy when you get inside their head... it's only a matter of degree.

Spare time is like spare change. It's hard to quantify, the definition of that phrase. What do I do when I'm not onstage singing, or sleeping, with or without someone else? I watch movies.

I vote Labour and can't begin to acknowledge anything good that comes from a Tory.

God is my Father, He loves me, I shall never think of anything He will forget. Why should I worry?

Be non-trend-driven, and explore, be creative and take risks as an artist and as a cultural communicator.