What if I told you that I put my whole life into Tintin?

By believing in his dreams, man turns them into reality.

If! If! You can get 'round anything with 'if'.

Assumptions close doors. Intrigue opens them.

All men are equal in God’s presence

So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world, interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

I am afraid that as people grow old there is a tendency for them to believe that what the past *ought* to have been it was.

There is no body cavity that cannot be reached with a number fourteen needle and a good strong arm.

I grew up in the countryside, and I was obsessed with horses and wildlife.

...the moving spirit of militancy is deep and abiding reverence for human life.

Love is a wonderful thing, my dear, but it leaves you wide open for blackmail.

It doesn’t matter where I stand; whether at the front or at the back, in the middle or at the side. As long as I can get on stage and do what I love, that’s enough for me.

I'm very fond of piano players.