One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

It gets on top of me and I get frustrated.

To tell you the truth, the older I get, the less I know. I keep meeting people, both older and younger, who seem to have accrued so much more knowledge or expertise or certainty about who they are and the jobs they do. I just marvel at it.

I have resolved to pick one novel and just read it over and over again for the rest of my life, because I cannot remember anything anymore.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

Boxing is fascinating. It's good for the soul to be made to feel clumsy. I swank around during the week thinking I'm a big cheese, but you don't feel like that when you're in the ring with a chap who knows what he's doing. It's ritual humiliation. I'm going to be slugged about and probably killed, but I love it and have to do something to keep fit.