To know your way round a library is to master the whole of culture, i.e. the whole world.

That's what sofas are for: sit down, drink a cup of tea, talk of literature. At least that's how I see it.

Christian contentment is that sweet, inward, quiet, gracious frame of spirit, which freely submits to and delights in God's wise and fatherly disposal in every condition.

Revenge, the sweetest morsel to the mouth that ever was cooked in hell.

Give us this day our daily bread.

Comics seem to be cooking these days. It's like being a rock star.

I'm just a human being that is in touch with myself. And I'm honest with myself. And I really, at the end of the day, don't care what people say. I never cared about what people say.

One sought not absolute truth. One sought only a spool on which to wind the thread of history without breaking it.

Most art students are generous till it comes to squeezing their colour on the palette... Many pictures haven't become works of art simply because the artist tried to save a nickel's worth of colour.

I think in my 20s I was just all about having fun.

If I do something weird, play it twice and it's a new part.

It's about moments in life that are great but don't last. They don't go on, but you always have the memory and they have an effect on you. That's what I was thinking about.