What the artist is always looking for is the mode of existence in which soul and body are one and indivisible: in which the outward is expressive of the inward: in which form reveals.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead

And reading itself is an amazing activity: You glance at a thin, flat object made from a tree...and the voice of the author begins to speak inside your head. (Hello!)

You need not to hate most of the people, life already hates them.

A blank cheque kills creativity.

They used to laugh at me when I refused to ride on all those double decker buses, all because there was no driver on the top.

One of my favourite sorts of actors...the rat actor. The rat actor knows his job and gets it done.

I can't wait to get off the stage, because I've got some LifeSavers in my pocket and pineapple is next!

I dislike Ted Cruz as much as the next everyone. But that's no reason to be rude to Ted's loving wife and possible hostage.

Each system is perfectly designed to give you exactly what you are getting today.

Since mine own doors refuse to entertain me, I'll knock elsewhere, to see if they'll disdain me