The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.

Those who restrain desire do so because theirs is weak enough to be restrained.

Being unwanted, unloved, uncared for, forgotten by everybody, I think that is a much greater hunger, a much greater poverty than the person who has nothing to eat.

They have formed their own 4-H club - the hopeless, hysterical hypochondriacs of history.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

A toast, Jedediah, to love on my terms. Those are the only terms anybody ever knows - his own.

Comedy is acting out optimism.

How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.

The destruction of the past is perhaps the greatest of all crimes.

Once you label me you negate me.

When I had nothing to lose, I had everything. When I stopped being who I am, I found myself.

The word 'good' has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man.

If you've got them by the balls their hearts and minds will follow.

You’ll miss the best things if you keep your eyes shut.

Do unto those downstream as you would have those upstream do unto you.

All tyranny needs to gain a foothold is for people of good conscience to remain silent.

No flying machine will ever fly from New York to Paris.

Any fool can criticize, condemn, and complain but it takes character and self control to be understanding and forgiving.

Passion goes, Boredom remains.

People think I'm a miserable sod but it's only because I get asked such bloody miserable questions.