People think there's a choice between smoking and immortality, but we've all got to die of something.

ROS: Why don't you go and have a look? GUIL: Pragmatism?! - is that all you have to offer?

Beauty is desired in order that it may be befouled; not for its own sake, but for the joy brought by the certainty of profaning it.

There's something scary about stupidity made coherent.

A genuine love of learning is one of the two delinquencies which cause blindness and lead a young man to ruin.

Give us this day our daily mask.

I write for film or, in this case, television when I haven't got a play cooking.