The Oscar Wilde of Welfare State gentility.

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.

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.

You were born with your legs apart. They'll send you to the grave in a Y-shaped coffin.

We must love those close to us, all the time, every day. Moments only happen once. Make them matter.

Men who thought of themselves as gods fell the farthest, and the hardest.

The modern man has become a machine for survival, which is largely the result of work of chemicals and genetic codes.

As I found out making this last movie ["Method"], if you ever do things in an unusual, different way, you got to fight because there's no way people will let you.

It is the root of all religion that a man knows that he is nothing in order to thank God that he is something.

I am basically a private person.

Maturity comes from obedience, not necessarily from age.

When we leave this world, and are laid in the earth, the prince walks as narrow a path as the day-laborer.

They say: Belief is important. I say: No, actions are important. Judge by deed, not by creed.

I've always respected [Michael Jordan] but I've never been a fan of his [Jordan's].Because everybody else is.