But happiness is no respecter of persons.
It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue.
Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.
It only takes a room of Americans for the English and Australians to realise how much we have in common.
An original idea. That can't be too hard. The library must be full of them.
You don't sit down and write a wish list about the person you are going to fall violently in love with. It just doesn't work like that.
When you get just a complete sense of blackness or void ahead of you, that somehow the future looks an impossible place to be, and the direction you are going seems to have no purpose, there is this word despair which is a very awful thing to feel.
There is so much we can learn from TV. It's a window on the world.
That one can love another of the same gender, that is what the homophobe really cannot stand.
Taste every fruit of every tree in the garden at least once. It is an insult to creation not to experience it fully. Temperance is wickedness.
Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.
Oh, it takes a lot for me to walk out of a film.
No, I love the idea that someone changes. As an actor it's always the thing that you look for. He is someone who starts off bright, cheerful and confident and then has everything taken away from him. It's a wonderful journey to take.
Moving from chair to chair, from coffee machine to coffee machine is the limit of my action in most films. But I enjoy being cast in them because I love watching them.
Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good.