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People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

You think I look like a teletubby?

They were the Saturday Club, a secret society of which only the four of them were aware and which none other could join.

History is made by people. And the majority of people are arseholes. Which is I suppose why the majority of history has been so disastrous.

The reactionary point of view was always so easy to put, the complex, radical argument always so easy to put down.

To positively discriminate in favour of groups that have been negatively discriminated against in the past.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

I exercise hard and the reason I do is so that I can earn the things I like to consume.

I did not vote Labour because they've heard of Oasis and nobody is going to vote Tory because William Hague has got a baseball cap.

I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.

There are lots of things I could have done for the money, but I've made a great living doing the things I want to do.

The earth only has so much bounty to offer and inventing ever larger and more notional prices for that bounty does not change its real value.

What a world, eh? Sometimes I wish I could just live somewhere on Radio 4.

I try hard not to preach, but I get carried away, which is a mistake, but it's a risk worth running.

Comedy will always be central to what I do, it's just an instinct for me, but I am a writer and always have been.

With privilege comes responsibility, you must understand that. People expect us to lead by example and we shall not disappoint them.

The worst thing about being a great power is when you're not one any more. It takes centuries to get over it.

I'm lucky because the strongest emotion I have ever felt is being in love, and that definitely informs my writing.

I think trying to be cool is the worst possible ambition - and I have never suffered from it.

So far no one has claimed responsibility.

And through all that dreadful darkness she had remembered him. He who loved her. He who still loved her. Who would always love her.

Sympathy for victims is always counter-balanced by an equal and opposite feeling of resentment towards them.

This calls for a very special blend of psychology and extreme violence.

What the matter wit' your momma? She only know one name?' Stone

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

I think it is very difficult to legislate for morality.

I see dull people as projects ... to be reformed

I don't consider myself Jewish. I am half-Jewish by race but not through my mother.

Artists don't create society, they reflect it

Ironies. Hubris, pride, comes before a fall. When

My parents were secular. I am an atheist.

People in that crowd want to make poverty history, but NOT if they have to pay for it themselves

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

You're mugging old ladies every bit as much if you pinch their pension fund

[H]e was damned if he was going to water down his arguments simply to satisfy the preference of the mob for dogma and ignorance.

Yes, OK, farty is a silly word. I wish I'd never used it. I'm 34. Perhaps it was a word for my 20s.