It is usually when men are at their most religious that they behave with the least sense and the greatest cruelty.
Love is a capricious creature which desires everything and can be contented with almost nothing.
Men should keep their eyes wide open before marriage, and half-shut afterwards.
Love makes the greatest pleasures and most sensitive misfortunes of life.
A jealous man always finds more than he is looking for.
The only rose without thorns is friendship.
Love makes life's sweetest pleasures and worst misfortunes.
Biology will relate every human gene to the genes of other animals and bacteria, to this great chain of being.
I'm not the greatest driver. I don't know if I'll ever master the art.
We were looking for someone who could get the film [Filth] made at that kind of level, with the finance we wanted, and we spoke to a lot of people. When I met James [McAvoy] in the Soho Hotel with Jon Baird, the director, he looked about ten years old. I thought there's no way he's going to be a forty-year-old divorced alcoholic cop. I thought, really lovely guy, I'll let him and John talk and see if they get on.
I think the function of suffering is to let me know that my perception is skewed; what I’m doing is judging natural events in such a way that I am creating suffering within myself. For instance, you have pain over certain conditions, certain situations that occur. And if you just say ‘ok, here I am, I’m going to experience the pain,’ you don’t suffer. The resistance and the degree of the resistance to the natural phenomenon of life causes tremendous suffering.