I always find the idea of Britishness a bit of a boring old concept, to be honest. That world of Britishness always comes off a bit twee and only about cream teas and that sort of things.

In the immediate aftermath of the civil-rights movement, Democrats marketed liberalism to us as fashionable, sophisticated and liberating. Today it needs a surgeon general's warning: hazardous to your...

Unfortunately we just toured the East and West coasts so we didn't run into any rednecks.

'The Dictator' lands somewhere between wan Mel Brooks and good Adam Sandler, whose 'You Don't Mess With the Zohan,' about an Israeli Special Forces soldier at a hair salon, manages to strike better...

You have to turn a blind eye to politics in nearly all Westerns.

I suppose if I wanted to be the girl next door, I could have been. I think America is confused by someone who appears to be sexual and spiritual at the same time.

I kind of love that British style: two seasons of tight, compact, good television. The more episodes you have, the thinner the episodes get.

Ah, the intractable Canadian problem: Winter and finery are basically incompatible.

I think Led Zeppelin must have worn some of the most peculiar clothing that men had ever been seen to wear without cracking a smile.

It's a sad commentary on our time - to use a phrase much favored by my late father - that people increasingly celebrate Christmas Day by going to the movies.

The Americans love Aussies, but they're actually quite afraid of us at the same time because they think we're insane. Then they see our sports - league, union, and AFL - and that makes them even more...

I like American women. They do things sexually Russian girls would never dream of doing - like showering.

Memorial services are the cocktail parties of the geriatric set.

Fairy tales were stupid. And dangerous.

The Gay' is not infectious, the world is not coming to an end, and people are happy. Gosh, how about that.

I would rather decline two drinks than one German adjective.

If you don't know the source of a quote, you can always make it sound better by attributing it to me. - Mark Twain

I dislike arranged marriages. There are some mistakes for which one should not be able to blame one's poor parents.

If it sells, it's art.

Increasingly–and mirroring what was happening in American politics–Heinlein would attract single - issue or single - novel admirers. Starship Troopers was just the first inkling of this.

If the Devil created Texas like some folks say he did, this is where he rested on the seventh day.

Although he could have been wearing a seventies lounge suit and she probably would have drooled over the polyester.

For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want...

Impatience is a twentieth-century virtue. At twenty, when they saw, or thought they saw, what life could be, the sum of bliss it held, the endless conquests it allowed, they realised they would not...

In other words, you want to become totally bourgeois. You people have all been brainwashed. I imagine that you'd like to become a success or something equally vile.