How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right, it's utterly, utterly evil. Why should I respect a capricious, mean-minded, stupid god who creates a world that is so full of injustice and pain?

I have Van Gogh's ear for music

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

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

It's a great privilege just to be in a film not because you're some packaging that some agent has done with the studio exec: "We need a John Travolta film."

If you go looking for loonies and religious fanatics and dropouts and freaks, I dare say you'll find it.

A cut glass English accent can fool unsuspecting Americans into detecting a brilliance that isn't there