People're artists they're doing something, taking a hunk of chaps, giving it some order, some form, and presenting it saying here is my little song and dance, my chaos.

I am human, all too bloody human.

Pope Paul III was the greatest thief in the history of the church.

We were in the Arabian Desert for nine months. And I was having the time of my life. It could have been an archeological expedition, a military expedition.

George Eliot is my only steady girlfriend. We go to bed together every night.

Acting has been described as farting about in disguise.

Writing is a kind of performing art, and I can't sit down to write unless I'm dressed. I don't mean dressed in a suit, but dressed well and comfortably and I have to be shaved and bathed.