Some people were just getting on with their lives, chatting, being young. It simply wouldn’t do.
This is no time for drinking a mug of water – which you would do nowhere else in the world. A mug of water! You just don’t drink water from mugs, do ya? Except on the telly. Water out of a mug! Should be a hot drink… mug of water.
And while we’re on the subject of ducks, which we plainly are, the story, ‘The Ugly Duckling’ ought be banned as the central character wasn’t a duckling or he wouldn’t have grown up into a swan. He was a cygnet.
Murderers! Stop murdering. Everyone will die eventually. Just sit down and be patient.
I want to change the world, and do something valuable and beautiful. I want people to remember me before I’m dead, and then more afterwards.
A personality for the incredibly beautiful can be a pointless cargo…
I couldn’t possibly have sex with someone with such a slender grasp on grammar!
I don’t like doing anything that makes you sweat if you don’t come at the end of it.
Rebel children, I urge you, fight the turgid slick of conformity with which they seek to smother your glory.
Have you been out in society recently? ‘Cause it’s SHIT.
People don’t realize that the future is just now, but later.
Companies’ motives to make profit means they neglect inherent social or moral values.
We thought it was nice of you to let him have a go, because, in England, he wouldn’t be trusted with a pair of scissors.
By puberty I learned that nothing worth having could be easily attained and to succeed one must be single minded.
I recognize that I have the ability to be selfish, but I also recognize that you can’t be happy if you only care about yourself at the expense of other people.
When it comes to your career, you must always try and allow the positive aspects of your character to dictate what happens to you. Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
Every moment is a fresh new beginning, a wonderful inauguration of the great cosmic journey through the universe. We can do whatever we want. We can change reality at any moment.
Boggle with sex addicts is up there with go-kart racing with junkies.
Even as a junkie I stayed true [to vegetarianism] – ‘I shall have heroin, but I shan’t have a hamburger.’ What a sexy little paradox.
The priority of any addict is to anaesthetise the pain of living to ease the passage of day with some purchased relief.
The need to find out what will happen if I don’t relent or moderate my actions has been a constant source of difficulty and discomfort in my life.
Be led by your talent, not by your self-loathing; those other things you just have to manage.
The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.
Spurred by Amy’s death I’ve tried to salvage unwilling victims from the mayhem of the internal storm and am always, always just pulled inside myself.
Being famous is like a little bit of you is taken away and goes off and lives on its own and does what it wants… I wish it would do more interesting things!
My modus operandi is that I’ll be content with anything, as long as I know that it’s the best that’s possible.
Invisible violence in Pakistan, violence against brown people, ongoing violence in Iraq — that’s got to be quantified in the same way as the cinematic glamorous violence that happens in recognisable cities.
I didn’t cross the line, you drew it in after I traversed it.
When I was growing up, I thought I’d be a lot happier if I was famous and successful and if I had money.
Strength does not have to be belligerent and loud.