I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry.

As you get older three things happen. The first is your memory goes, and I can't remember the other two.

Such is life and life is such and after all it isn't much. First a cradle. Then a hearse. It might have been better, but it could have been worse.

I owe everything to the army.

You know I've got a chum, a smashing mate, he's got a dog with no legs, and he calls it a cigarette. It's true, yeah, because at nighttime he has to take it out for a drag.

It was absolutely thrilling to meet Laurel and Hardy, they were so nice.

But no, I've just been very lucky. But I've worked hard, and the harder you work, the luckier you seem to get.

I've got one idea I want to do for a film and you know I just enjoy myself doing bits and pieces.

I was born in very sorry circumstances. Both of my parents were very sorry

All my boyhood, all I ever wanted was to be loved.

My comedy is for children from three to 93. You do need a slightly childish sense of humour and if you haven't got that, it's very sad.

You’re an immortal, divine being. A little god, and yet, you toil like a slave. Isn’t that hilarious?

The Infinite struck the void with the sound of the Word.

As soon as people enter a theater they must become moron consumers who must be fed information.

Stars are holes in the sky from which the light of the infinite shines.

I guess the drinking and the drugs are interesting to me because the way we use them and our society uses them, we kind of manufacture highs and lows.

It's a sad, sad world when a girl will break a boy, just because she can.

For me reading was always the great escape without getting your fingers burnt.

I think of myself in a continuum as a woman. Two hundred years ago, it would have been very difficult for me to write at all.

No man fails who does his best.