"If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer."

"I suppose that if your name is Freud, it is better to be related to Sigmund than not. It must be frustrating to have …"

"In 1978 I was on a parliamentary delegation to Japan and returned via China during the Cultural Revolution, a choice …"

"He did not suffer fools gladly (or at all) and his threshold for foolishness was set rather low. He was the master of…"

"Tolkien has become a monster, devoured by his own popularity and absorbed into the absurdity of our time. The chasm b…"

"If I thought my apprenticeship was over, I would be the first to be done for. It's a stimulus that you need all the t…"

"What pisses me off the most is that it seems like if I wear a miniskirt or a revealing dress – because maybe I like m…"

"You don't need to know if a relationship will work. It needs to start."

"I'm 40, not 20, when your hormones are going crazy, your head is full of dreams, and your future is in your hands. I'…"

"Interviewer: What memories do you have of your time at school as a pupil? Delogu: I felt like I was in a kind of tran…"