It is better to sit alone than in company with the bad

Being number one doesn't mean you are the best.

As the purse is emptied the heart is filled.

Thinking about the fathomless cruelty with which man has treated his fellow man, but also ice cream.

[Government's] great contribution to human wisdom...is the discovery that the taxpayer has more than one pocket.

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal and toothpaste boxes.

I think it's important that we have a new batch of British film-makers that aren't doing the same old stuff. And that includes me.

A knife is only as good as the one who wields it.

Deep love creates deep fear. It looks like death because the I disappears, the you disappears - and it is a sort of death. And when you die, only then do you enter into the divine.

It's important to be willing to make mistakes. The worst thing that can happen is you become memorable.

The hard part is getting to the top of page 1.