There's no doubt that I do have extremes of mood that are greater than just about anybody else I know.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

He is no clown that drives the plow, but he that doth clownish things.

No matter how hard it gets, I’d rather be a soldier drowning in my own blood than a coward in my own piss

O sweet spontaneous earth how often has the naughty thumb of science prodded thy beauty thou answereth them only with spring.

If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually the tree has to fall down.

It is better to know nothing than to know what ain't so.

I enjoy trying to develop a car and Mercedes are one of the biggest car manufacturers in the world.

Poetry is a serious business; literature is the apparatus through which the world tries to keep intact its important ideas and feelings.

One of the great criticisms of poets of the past is that they said one thing and did another.

I guess there is no two races of people in worse repute with everybody than the international bankers, and the folks that put all those pins in new shirts.

Nor will I then thy modest grace forget, Chaste Snow-drop, venturous harbinger of Spring, And pensive monitor of fleeting years!