On our way home we were waiting for the bus when a very fat, pompous-looking woman reeled out of a pub shouting, "Melancholia? Ad nauseam."

With madness, as with vomit, it's the passerby who receives the inconvenience.

The kind of people who always go on about whether a thing is in good taste invariably have very bad taste.

I'd the upbringing a nun would envy. Until I was fifteen I was more familiar with Africa than my own body.

I'm too amused by the way people carry on to give in to despair.

The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

Every luxury was lavished on you - atheism, breastfeeding, circumcision.

God is a gentleman. He prefers blondes

Civilizations have been founded and maintained on theories which refused to obey facts.

Policemen, like red squirrels, must be protected.

FAY: The British police force used to be run by men of integrity. TRUSCOTT: That is a mistake which has been rectified.

I assumed this yoke would encase me as well as any another hobble. Only this one bound the mind.

Even if it were proven that God didn't exist, Religion would still be Saintly and Divine.

For every hand extended another lies in wait. Keep your eye on that one girl...anticipate.

I've done many different movies in many different contexts.

Each man enters into God so much as God enters into him.

Romantic souvenirs had a way of attaching themselves to one when one wanted to move on, but they were not to be taken seriously.

sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.

There is no romance without some lying. That's what romance is - a little bit of Vaseline on the camera lens of life.

Knowledge is gained by learning; trust by doubt; skill by practice; and love by love.

Coaching is not a natural way of life. Your victories and losses are too clear cut.