Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.
Stephen FryWe don't stop talking about how the world might be better just because we have no chance of making it to Prime Minister. We are all politicians. We are all artists. In an open society everything the mind and hands can achieve is our birthright. It is up to us to claim it.
Stephen FryThere is not any way that you can just choose the nice bits and say that means there is a God and ignore the true fact of what nature is.
Stephen FryHaving been an actor and a writer for so long - 20 years or so - I felt that it would be daft to go to one's grave without having directed. It's a natural extension of writing and acting, and so I knew it would happen one day.
Stephen Fry