“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.”

“Man has created technology. Technology has created man”

“I'm not interested in whether you've stood with the great”

“I am not interested in whether you've stood with the great”

“Not everyone may not think the way you do.”

“I think you're wrong.""Think what you like.”

“To think, to think, even with a split second left - to think was the only hope.”

“There is something wonderful in seeing a wrong-headed majority assailed by truth.”

“Marriage is wonderful.”