From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked.

There we were - demented children mincing about in clothes that no one ever wore, speaking as no man ever spoke, swearing love in wigs and rhymed couplets, killing each other with wooden swords, hollow protestations of faith hurled after empty promises of vengeance - and every gesture, every pose, vanishing into the thin unpopulated air. We ransomed our dignity to the clouds, and the uncomprehending birds listened. Don't you see?! We're actors - we're the opposite of people!

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

I doubt that art needed Ruskin any more than a moving train needs one of its passengers to shove it.

I can't remember what my first script was.

Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power.