If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.
marriagepeoplestrengthtso-love
No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.
people
People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.
peopletso-life
Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.
My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!
Most of my stand-up comedy is about being a small, scared, neurotic individual among the billions of other small, scared, neurotic individuals that make up the mass which is us. I always think the first target of a stand-up comic should be themselves-we all share our weaknesses, and it's fun to use them as a source of comedy.
We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.
Most of my work isn't directly autobiographical. It tends to be an amalgam of things I've seen and heard and thought and conversations I've had.
I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.
mistakesworth
Even if it sounds pretentious, which it isn't-I've found it artistically challenging to produce a monologue that is filled with laughter and ideas. It's a tough thing to pull off, but satire is better if it has conviction behind it.
Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.
books
This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.
humortso-funnyviolencevyvyan
Any closer would unravel her mystery, the very thing which made her so truly beautiful...It was her mystery that he adored. He was in love with everything that he did not know about her... No real sexual encounter could ever match the secret one that he could nurture in his imagination... No living flesh could ever be the erotic equal of flesh kept private, untouchable and unknowable
mystery
The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.
politicsprogressivereactionary
You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.
dreams