My life, at least, is divided between writing and performing and mixtures of the two.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

When an author is yet living we estimate his powers by his worst performance and when he is dead we rate them by his best.

There is a relationship between cartooning and people like Mir= and Picasso which may not be understood by the cartoonist, but it definitely is related even in the early Disney.

The sustaining of life, in a bodily sense as well as in the sense of psychological health, is inherently subject to risk.

I don't know of a great artist who did not sacrifice and thereby have to wrestle with the depths of loneliness and sadness.

I'm very lucky about my family, because they're just a really solid family. I owe everything to them.

In art, as long as you have ideas and think, you are bound to deform nature. Art is deformation.

Some studies suggest that the Arctic Ocean may be ice-free by the end of the century.

Public opinion, though slow as lava, in the end forces governments towards more sanity, more justice. My heroes and heroines are all private citizens.

Some actors go, 'Bing!' and suddenly they're being paid huge sums. Me, I seem to get screwed every time.

It is better to disappoint people with the truth than to appease them with a lie.