"Woe is me, for I am ruined! Because I am a man of unclean lips, And I live among a people of unclean lips; For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts."

“You say you’re sick, huh? Well, it looks like you’ve come down with a case of bullshit.”

“I barely have time for my own children. To adopt more children and not have time for them, that would be poor parenting on my part.”

“I'm always conscious of the fact that I am part of a profession that is 80% permanently unemployed. So, to be working in any sense is to be privileged.”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com

“Communications devices were always used to effect change, to effect revolution. Telephone, telegraph - these all seemed like very big enhancements at the time.”

“It's always about a character that I become obsessed with and who refuses to leave me alone.”

“Familiarity breeds consent.”

“I care so much less, now, about going up the ladder; if I cared about the ladder I would be doing it all very wrong.”

Source : "How I survived divorce, the tabloids and Jamie Theakston". Interview with Euan Ferguson, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2001.

“He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled on a photograph of his wife with his dying hand goodbye, goodbye, goodbye”

Source : "Myles before Myles: a selection of the earlier writings of Brian O'Nolan".