Russian vodka is OK if you need to clean the oven. For drinking, it must henceforth be Polish.

It's a holy city for music.

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young.

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

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

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.

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