The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

New technology is useful, but it's inefficient and ugly; it knows it'll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else.

I try and do 2,500 words a day, every day of the year.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of.

I don't read the Sunday papers; or the dailies, either.

American-style iced tea is the perfect drink for a hot, sunny day. It's never really caught on in the UK, probably because the last time we had a hot, sunny day was back in 1957.

It was irritating to have one's physical shortcomings pointed out quite so plainly twice in one evening, once by a beautiful girl and once by a dying badger.

Lawyers are predators in grey worsted.

Everything is out there if you know how to find it, and have the patience. I don't and haven't, but that's my problem.

Luck, like a Russian car, generally only works if you push it.

The best definition of an immortal is someone who hasn't died yet.

Pleasure is something you can easily lose the knack of, if you allow yourself to get out of practice.

Youll never do anything behind you that wont come up in front of you.

Get action. Seize the moment. Man was never intended to become an oyster.

I try and write the way things happen. I don't try and fulfill people's wishes.

Triathlon doesn't build character. It reveals it.

If I would be in this business for business, I wouldn't be in this business.

If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

Respect is really only a devious route taken by violence.

Meals make the society, hold the fabric together in lots of ways that were charming and interesting and intoxicating to me. The perfect meal, or the best meals, occur in a context that frequently has very little to do with the food itself.

Basically, if reverse engineering is banned, then a lot of the open source community is doomed to fail.

No one knows who is listening, say nothing you would not wish put in the newspapers.

I'd love my children no matter what.

I want the chance to play very different characters, and I've always wanted to do more films.

I suppose I started writing seriously at 16 years old. I thought I wrote a novel at 16 and sent it to New York! They sent it back because it wasn't novel.

I know a lot of people in the retirement village that I have a house in in Florida that are on the Internet and are reading the paper on the Internet, and they're communicating on the Internet.

I'm happy that I can focus on my body a little bit. I'm not happy to get surgery, but I'm happy that I can focus on getting better.

The charlatan is always the pioneer... The quack of yesterday is the professor of tomorrow.

Prince is gone. But the music will go on.

It's good to do things slow in the bush. It makes you appreciate everything a lot more.

If you look beyond the short term violence and instability, you do see significant activities on the part of the Iraqi people that indicate they understand the commitment necessary to govern themselves. It's not clear how they will do it, but it never is.

There's an awareness of fashion in this country, and it's not limited to gay people.

Maybe it's the hair. Maybe it's the teeth. Maybe it's the intellect. No, it's the hair.

Creativity is the key to success in the future, and primary education is where teachers can bring creativity in children at that level.

I've never had anyone define purity. You probably can't define purity. Purity is to live according to original design.

As an actor, you are always looking for something fresh and interesting and not ordinary.