Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
I believe in the separation of church and planet.
Pattycake, pattycake, baker's man; good morning, madam, I'm a psychiatrist
I think the special thing about Python is that it's a writers' commune. The writers are in charge. The writers decide what the material is.
Nobody gets irony anymore, as we are now living in the post-ironic age. Once George Bush gets a library, our irony is dead.
Reading Alan Zweibel makes me laugh out loud. And yet it is not a particularly funny name.
The dreadful thing about getting older is you cry at the drop of a hat.
Can your player make a curl cut and score in the lane? If so, he is the cutter.
As a manager the important thing is not what happens when you are there, but what happens when you are not there
I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.
You get some success. You run into some walls. . . it's how tenacious you are, how irrepressible, how ultimately optimistic and tenacious you are about it that will determine your success.