He could sell snow to an Eskimo. --Overheard in a Real Estate Office

Toleration is the best religion.

I regard writing not as an investigation of character but as an exercise in the use of language, and with this I am obsessed.

We have two companies of MARINES running all over this island and thousands of ARMY troops doing nothing!

We are not greatly pleased that our friends should respect our good qualities if they venture to perceive our faults.

If we would know what heaven is before we come thither, let us retire into the depths of our own spirits, and we shall find it there among holy thoughts and feelings.

The ancient Greeks, poets, authors and philosophers all puzzled over the question but nobody really knows what love is - including me. Longing for another person is an exciting mental experience.

The thing I'm not good with is mediocrity, when someone isn't really trying to reach something.

It's the FSA and its plethora of EU bodies that's failed.

Learning to program has no more to do with designing interactive software than learning to touch type has to do with writing poetry

I feel like I share a great relationship with my audience where they trust my judgment and choice of films and sense of comedy.