Before I speak, I have something important to say.

Jests that give pains are not jests.

At the heart of all beauty lies something inhuman.

If a little is great, and a lot is better, then way too much is just about right!

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Radical simply means 'grasping things at the root'.

Everything beautiful has a mark of eternity.

To the young people I say, you are a gift to your communities and indeed the world. You are our hope and our future.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

When people start asking you to do the same thing over and over again, that's when you know you're way too close to something that you don't want to be near.

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

A stale article, if you dip it in a good, warm, sunny smile, will go off better than a fresh one that you've scowled upon.

For a moment, nothing happened. Then, after a second or so, nothing continued to happen.

A difference of opinion is what makes horse racing and missionaries.

I will not let anyone walk through my mind with their dirty feet.

Ah just act the way ah feel.

Racism is a much more clandestine, much more hidden kind of phenomenon, but at the same time it's perhaps far more terrible than it's ever been.

There is only one difference between a madman and me. The madman thinks he is sane. I know I am mad.

There is the view that poetry should improve your life. I think people confuse it with the Salvation Army.

Only two things are infinite, the universe and human stupidity, and I'm not sure about the former.

The imagination is not a state: it is the human existence itself.