As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

The worst of this sorry bunch of semi-educated losers are those who seem to glory in being irritated by nouns becoming verbs. How dense and deaf to language development do you have to be? If you don’t like nouns becoming verbs, then for heaven’s sake avoid Shakespeare who made a doing-word out of a thing-word every chance he got. He TABLED the motion and CHAIRED the meeting in which nouns were made verbs

After the shooting of John Lennon and the early death of so many great stars and the utter naked venal mercantile marketing of pop music and rock music, I don't think anyone really believes that music is anything more than another commodity.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

Perhaps the greatest definition I think of character and quality is people who when they're truly great rather than making you feel that tall they make you feel that tall, that they're greatness as it were improves you.

I was born Mary Patterson, but then I married and naturally took my husband's name, so now I'm Neil Patterson.