The aim of English cricket is, in fact, mainly to beat Australia.

Life, it seems, is nothing if not a series of initiations, transitions, and incorporations.

I have to admit: I have been known to be obsessively neat and like things arranged just so.

When a horror movie is well done, I love it and I put it up in esteem with any other genre.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

Do they allow tipping on the boat? - Yes, sir. Have you got two fives? - Oh, yes, sir. Then you won't need the ten cents I was going to give you.

I didn't mind being unpopular at school, because everyone else was a heathen.

There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

You would not have the wisdom and knowledge you now possess were it not for the setbacks you have faced, the mistakes you have made and the suffering you have endured.

I feel more reassured with physical media. Entertainment is something that will not just become digital.

To photograph is to confer importance.