Wit can be beautiful, because it expresses and distills an idea.

Glory never arrives through the front door. She sneaks in uninvited round the back or through an upstairs window while you are sleeping.

They are just 100 per cent bear, whereas human beings feel we're not 100 per cent human, that we're always letting ourselves down. We're constantly striving towards something, to some fulfilment.

Families where there is not much laughter I think are signs of some sort of dysfunctionality or sickness.

You've just had the most imponderable joy of watching charlieissocoollike, which makes you, like, cool.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

Cheat? Good heavens, this is an amateur cricket match amongst leading prep schools, I'm an Englishman and a schoolmaster supposedly setting an example to his young charges. We are playing the most artistic and beautiful game ever devised. Of course I'll cunting well cheat. Now, give me my robe and put on my crown. I have immortal longings in me.