The essence of a class system is not that the privileged are conscious of their privileges, but that the deprived are conscious of their deprivations.

Whoever called snooker "chess with balls" was rude, but right.

Snooker is just chess with balls.

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is just common sense, dancing.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

A sceptic finds Dallas absurd. A cynic thinks the public doesn't

It is only when they go wrong that machines remind you how powerful they are.

A life without fame can be a good life, but fame without a life is no life at all.

Fiction is life with the dull bits left out.

Disco dancing is just the steady thump of a giant moron knocking in an endless nail.

They had a... dog called Bluey. A know psychopath, Bluey would attack himself if nothing else was available.

Had the love been permanent, there won’t have been divorces after love marriages. Had the love been everlasting, there won’t have been bad blood in the family.

Build a relationship with your inner self, you will never feel alone.

I respect Jay-Z. I like him.

Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it.

The close Turkish-Israeli relations go back to the late 1950s - military intelligence, commercial, more recently, tourism and cultural relations.

Great leaders inspire, they don't manipulate.

The Argentine tango is very special to me because it's full of sensuality. The chemistry between the man and woman is absolutely stunning.

Dreams are reality waiting to happen

There's a certain kind of scepticism that can't bear uncertainty.

The creator of the universe works in mysterious ways. But he uses a base ten counting system and likes round numbers.