In a gentle way, you can shake the world.
I never knew how soothing trees are-many trees and patches of open sunlight, and tree presences; it is almost like having another being.
The dead don't die. They look on and help.
This is the very worst wickedness, that we refuse to acknowledge the passionate evil that is in us. This makes us secret and rotten.
For man, as for flower and beast and bird, the supreme triumph is to be most vividly, most perfectly alive.
Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.
In masturbation there is nothing but loss. There is no reciprocity. There is merely the spending away of a certain force, and no return. The body remains, in a sense, a corpse, after the act of self-abuse. There is no change, only deadening. There is what we call dead loss. And this is not the case in any act of sexual intercourse between two people. Two people may destroy one another in sex. But they cannot just produce the null effect of masturbation.
The thing I love about sketch is sometimes it leads you as opposed to you leading it. So, I don't go out there [thinking], "Oh, I want to make this as silly as possible. " In fact, sometimes I get the most enjoyment out of a sketch that plays very real - and it's so real that it's just funny.
I'd say that one area where my political views have remained unchanged is that, I am opposed to the government spying on everybody.
When I think of the future, I think of doing my washing so I've something to wear tomorrow.
I love revision. Where else can spilled milk be turned into ice cream?