You see, I don't belive that libraries should be drab places where people sit in silence, that has been the main reason for our policy of employing wild animals as librarians.

Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition.

I don't want to talk to you no more, you empty headed animal food trough wiper. I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster and your father smelt of elderberries.

Kilimanjaro is a pretty tricky climb you know, most of it's up until you reach the very very top, and then it tends to slope away rather sharply.

We come from nothing, we are going back to nothing-In the end what have we lost? Nothing!

You know, there are many people in the country today who, through no fault of their own, are sane. Some of them were born sane. Some of them became sane later in their lives.

Camelot is a silly place.

I'm having Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, Spam, baked beans, Spam, Spam and Spam!

Always look on the bright side of life.

We are no longer the knights who say Ni! We are now the knights who say ekki-ekki-ekki-pitang-zoom-boing!

Oh Lord please don't burn us don't kill or toast your flock. Don't put us on the barbecue or simmer us in stock. Don't bake or baste or boil us or stir-fry us in a wok.

When you are looking for love, then love is spreading its net to catch you.

True friends are not mirrors where we can always see ourselves reflected in a positive light.

My mission is not to forbid French art. If the quality is there, I buy; if the quality isn't there, I don't.

I have the best husband in the world. He's very involved.

The idea of disembodied spirits is wholly unsupported by evidence, and I cannot accept it.

That best of blessings, a contented mind.

No one who has understood even a fraction of what science has told us about the universe can fail to be in awe of both the cosmos and of science.

There's no better feeling than just going in and just working with someone and what comes out is something that the world knows about.

President Bush almost killed me.

The writer's only responsibility is to his art...If a writer has to rob his mother, he will not hesitate; the 'Ode on a Grecian Urn' is worth any number of old ladies.