Humphrey Searle writes music that sounds like the theme from 'Star Wars' played backwards through a washing machine.

The thing about making a documentary in Las Vegas is there isn't much to film apart from other people making documentaries about Las Vegas.

Delivering the State of the Union? That bloke couldn't deliver pizza.

The British secret service was staffed at one point almost entirely by alcoholic homosexuals working for the KGB

You can't be young always. The day will come when everything will fall apart.

When I finally embraced abstinence it was because of the simple urge to work a longer day. Thus, without joining Alcoholics Anonymous, I was at last able to leave Piss-Artists Notorious.

I won't have to miss smoking any more. Nobody smokes where I'm going: It's like a row of restaurants in California.