Those who rule the world get so little opportunity to run about and laugh and play in it.

Supporting the English cricket team is like supporting a second division football team. I support Norwich City football team and when they lose I really don't mind because I expect them to; but when we win I'm so happy - much happier than any Arsenal supporter could ever be.

I suppose the thing that really interests me is what mankind did with the big, big, big discoveries that have created our modern age.

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

I said it before and I’ll say it again: books are dead, plays are dead, poems are dead: there’s only movies. Music is still okay, because music is sound track. Ten, fifteen years ago, every arts student wanted to be a novelist or a playwright. I’d be amazed if you could find a single one now with such a dead-end ambition. They all want to make movies. Not write movies. You don’t write movies. You make movies.

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

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness