"We can see after 200+ years that the American model failed. It is not limited. It is totalitarian. And getting worse."

“The only way you preserve pitching arms is throwing that makes the arm stronger.”

“How does he do it? Live. With the fear of death every day. I don't fear death as much as I fear the thought of living.”

“You cannot train a horse with shouts and expect it to obey a whisper.”

Source : Dagobert D. Runes (2015). “Treasury of Thought”, p.172, Open Road Media

“The world is too dangerous for anything but truth and too small for anything but love. We can never really love anybody with whom we never laugh. Love is in the giver, not the gift.”

“Memory is a painter. Paintin's not important. The important thing is keepin' busy.”

“I don't know if I want to get married again.”

“Did you ever see a chameleon catch a fly? The chameleon gets behind the fly and remains motionless for some time, then he advances very slowly and gently, first putting forward one leg and then the other. At last, when well within reach, he darts his tongue and the fly disappears. England is the chameleon and I am that fly.”

“I'm massively talented, and very, very beautiful in person; the public don't really realise that.”

Source : "Life is not so scary". Interview With Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. September 1, 2003.