“Mellow doesn't describe me. I'm hungry every day.”

“I mean, language fascinates me anyway, and different words have different energies and you can change the whole drive of a sentence.”

“I want to swim in both directions at once. Desire success, court failure.”

“Those of you who are not aware of my brilliant career as a stand up comic, I'm not aware of it either so we might well wonder what we're doing here.”

“Talent is an accident of genes, and a responsibility.”

“I love perfumes. Every morning when my girlfriend and I come down to the courtyard in our block of flats we're assailed by the most delicious scent - jasmine round a doorway. It almost makes me swoon.”

“Coming from Chicago, I like a white Christmas.”

“The British were white, English, and Protestant, just as we were. They had to have some other basis on which to justify independence, and happily they were able to formulate the inalienable truths ...”

“'White Material' is about courage and craziness.”

“The more he smiled, the more I wanted to hate him, and yet it was the very thing that made hating him impossible.”

“I hate and love. And why, perhaps youll ask.I dont know: but I feel, and Im tormented.”

“Good bye AEHS. You suck. I hate you. And yet... Somehow I'll miss you too.”