The key to effective teaching is to remember how you learned.

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.

Multiplying my age by 2 in my head/I'm a grandfather. Or Dead.

I've had a couple of pinch-me moments.

Frame in terms of what you want to have in the picture, not about making a nice picture, that anybody can do.

I have always felt that if I am very personal and connected with what I myself am living, my writing will transcend ecclesial boundaries.

So long as thou are ignorant be not ashamed to learn. Ignorance is the greatest of all infirmities, and when justified, the chiefest of all follies.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Anything I write I ask myself: Is it true, is it entertaining?

I am not a scientist.

You know I have always tried to be honest with you and open about my life, so I need to tell you that part of what you have heard and read is correct. I am addicted to prescription pain medication.

If you appeal to the crowd, either by being humorous or brutal or eccentric, you gain favor.