An artist is the magician put among men to gratify - capriciously - their urge for immortality.

I don't think I can be expected to take seriously any game which takes less than three days to reach its conclusion.

You can't treat royalty like people with normal perverted desires.

A great production of a black comedy is better than a mediocre production of a comedy of errors.

I never had any frustration about writing uncredited. I always felt that the satisfaction of doing it was in the doing of it, really, and getting recognised by the small number of people that know what you did.

We're better at predicting events at the edge of the galaxy or inside the nucleus of an atom than whether it'll rain on auntie's garden party three Sundays from now.

Revolution is a trivial shift in the emphasis of suffering.