Listening to classical music is a journey not a state; it's an activity not a meditation.

Death is a fickle hen, and random are her eggs.

Write what makes you laugh not what you think will make someone else laugh.

The only shared reality we have is things we have seen on television.

There's something inherently comic about the fact that politicians make things worse by worrying too much about something.

The busier you are, the less time you have to make decisions.

I always think you've just got to move on. If you keep wallowing in the thing that you've done for a while you get a bit stale.

As a gut thing, my next project is always the complete opposite of the thing I've just done. So if I've spent a lot of time doing film, I might then do some radio.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

I'm a bit of a political geek anyway, so you tend to write how you think the rhythms of an administration will go.

Any president's second term ends up being quite messy. It never goes quite according to plan.

Son of a Merryweather, he’s a lot stronger than he looks.

I wasn't a very good student. I prefer to learn by experience.

Love is a state of mind which has nothing to do with the mind.

Books are the air I breathe, so I don't notice the seasons.

While some men believe in the infinite, some ponds will be thought to be bottomless.

But as soon as I joined 'Six Feet Under', I felt like I was finally doing something again that the fans really loved, and I could stop being afraid of 'Clueless' fans!

People have no clue that they’re in prison, they don’t know that there is an ego, they don’t know the distinction.

Witch hunters is white women’s worry.

If a path to the better there be, it begins with a full look at the worst.

But all the wickedness in the world which man may do or think is no more to the mercy of God than a live coal dropped in the sea.