If you look at my last songs and first short stories, there is a real connection between them.

The evening's the best part of the day. You've done your day's work. Now you can put your feet up and enjoy it.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.

Many of our deepest motives come, not from an adult logic of how things work in the world, but out of something that is frozen from childhood.

She always wanted to believe in things.

Love isn't about when you first meet. It's about the many, many years you spend together, when you're trying to keep that flame burning.

Our family arrived in England in 1960. At that time I thought the war was ancient history. But if I think of 15 years ago from now, thats 1990, and that seems like yesterday to me.

Memory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers.

As a writer, I'm more interested in what people tell themselves happened rather than what actually happened.

If you are under the impression you have already perfected yourself, you will never rise to the heights you are no doubt capable of.

Faith can move mountains; true: mountains of stupidity.

Being a broadcaster, man, you just sort of paint from a blank canvas, in a way.

Bragging about what a good deal you got is one of the many great art forms that my people, the Jews, have introduced to American culture.

Do I make fashion mistakes? Yes, but I won't say what.

I am proud of what I have got and I need an audience.

Luckily the whole world is not like me, or else, there would be no world.

I have a driver in London because I am slightly dyslexic and cannot drive in the U.K.; after all, the traffic runs the opposite way to that in the United States.

'Give up... it's time to quit,' I don't think I've ever really accepted those kinds of words in my life or vocabulary.

I like to have fun, but I don't play games.

I call my balls the bush twins.