"They bombed my granny's chippie, left it completely flat. I'll have her for that"

“Man shouldn’t be able to see his own face – there’s nothing more sinister. Nature gave him the gift of not being able to see it, and of not being able to stare into his own eyes. Only in the water of rivers and ponds could he look at his face. And the very posture he had to assume was symbolic. He had to bend over, stoop down, to commit the ignominy of beholding himself. The inventor of the mirror poisoned the human heart.”

“Long ago life was clean, sex was bad and obscene, and the rich were so mean. Stately homes for the Lords, croquet lawns, village greens, Victoria was my queen.”

“The moral climate of any organization, larger than that of the individual, is created hour by hour through the multitude of choices and behaviors of its members.”

“Evan Price is not a man to be questioned. He is a man who will question you.”

“The past is a curious thing. It's with you all the time. I suppose an hour never passes without your thinking of things that happened ten or twenty years ago, and yet most of the time it's got no reality, it's just a set of facts that you've learned, like a lot of stuff in a history book. Then some chance sight or sound or smell, especially smell, sets you going, and the past doesn't merely come back to you, you're actually IN the past. It was like that at this moment.”

“People give up control because they don't want to make mistakes.”

“Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be break-through.”

“One of my favorite films is 'Dumb and Dumber.' I'd love to do some really silly comedy someday.”