Sometimes I watch a scene I've written, and occasionally I think, "Oh, for God's sake, shut up."

I still believe that if your aim is to change the world, journalism is a more immediate short-term weapon.

Because children grow up, we think a child's purpose is to grow up. But a child's purpose is to be a child

Between "just desserts" and "tragic irony" we are given quite a lot of scope for our particular talent. Generally speaking, things have gone about as far as they can possibly go when things have got about as bad as they reasonably get.

...Everything has to be taken on trust; truth is only that what is taken to be true. It's the currency if living. There may be nothing behind it, but it doesn't make any difference so long as it is honoured. One acts on assumptions. What do you assume?

All mystical experience is coincidence; and vice versa, of course.

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