Statistics are human beings with the tears wiped away.

Paranoia is a social disease-you get it from screwing other people.

The memory of Mullah Mustafa Barzani has become a crucial part of the idea of what it means to be Kurdish today.

Education should be the process of helping everyone to discover his uniqueness.

A comedy is just a tragedy interrupted, I once said. Do you finish with the kiss or when she opens her eyes to tell him she loves him and sees blonde hairs on his collar?

An administration, like a machine, does not create. It carries on.

If I live for another ten years I shall probably have written all that I want to write.

My wife's the ugliest woman in the world - I'd sooner take her with me on tour, than kiss her goodbye.

But in the UK, I've given up any hope of being considered a director.

We're running out of rich people in this country.

Do not forget that even as "to work is to worship" so to be cheery is to worship also, and to be happy is the first step to being pious.

At some point, the pride has to be a part of the whole day-to-day oeuvre. It's part of who you are and doesn't need to be discussed anymore.