I've always believed in writing without a collaborator, because where two people are writing the same book, each believes he gets all the worry and only half the royalties.
Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
There's a time for daring and there's a time for caution, and a wise man understands which is called for.
One must shy away from questionable undertakings, even when they bear a high-sounding name.
It is a common enough case, that of a man being suddenly captivated by a woman nearly the opposite of his ideal.
Nothing is important, so people, realising that, should get on with their lives, go mad, take their clothes off, jump in the canal, jump into one of those supermarket trolleys, race around the supermarket and steal Mars bars and kiss kittens.
If met Vic Reeves, I'd have no desire other than to smack him in the face.
Thou art all the comfort, The Gods will diet me with.
This search for what you want is like tracking something that doesn't want to be tracked. It takes time to get a dance right, to create something memorable.
If we can't turn the world around we can at least bolster the victims.
That's the first time I've seen sex between two men on the BBC.
Toby [Huss] gets shot, or that part when [John] Travolta says this, or the part where Ethan [Hawke] says that cool thing - those details are the things that are interesting to me. So just acknowledging we don't have a lot of money [for Valley of Violence], so we're going to make a Western that's kind of contained, but we're going to make it super charismatic and we're going to make it memorable for what it is as opposed to what we couldn't afford.
Comedy - and I say this with humility - comedy needs me.
What the great ones do, the less will prattle of
I am also convinced that one gains the purest joy from spirited things only when they are not tied in with earning one's livelihood.
Bob Geldof is a nauseating character. Band Aid was the most self-righteous platform ever in the history of popular music.
I feel no need for any other faith than my faith in human beings.
The only way to escape the corruptible effect of praise is to go on working.
I'll not listen to reason. . . reason always means what someone else has got to say.
The best time to plan a book is while you're doing the dishes.