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

Men never sound more stupid than when they're telling you they're a very complex personality.

I was brought up on the proletarian left, and I remain there. The fair go for workers is fundamental, and I don't believe the free market has a mind.

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.

I've got life for a subject because as life starts to drain away, you start seeing very clearly what life is, for the first time.

I'm certainly not a linguist. I learned what languages I could learn in order to read books and I can't really speak them. I couldn't have stayed out of jail in most of them.

The Canadian version of Julius Caesar's memoirs? I came, I saw, I coped.