It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

I remain optimistic that ultimately free speech and a free press where individuals have access to the dialogue will have a self-correcting quality.

When Celtic faced closure in 1994. My feelings then were of disbelief and concern for my mates who were Celtic fans.

In the U.K. I'm probably better known as a comedy writer - or certainly that's my background is in writing comedy.

You can't buy time or save it, common idioms notwithstanding. You can only spend it.

Humility is the only true wisdom by which we prepare our minds for all the possible changes of life.

I tend not to listen. When I'm listening to records, I don't listen to much new wave stuff, I tend to listen to the stuff I used to listen to a few years back but sort of odd singles.

There are two types of people in the world: those who think everyone needs therapy, and those who have never been.

Man can only endure a certain degree of unhappiness; what is beyond that either annihilates him or passes by him and leaves him apathetic

I hate red carpet photographs!

I'll continue to climb, trying to reach the top. But no one knows where the top is.