"Back in the East you can't do much without the right papers, but with the right papers you can do anything The believe in papers. Papers are power."

"A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier."

"You can't but know that if you can capture the emotions of the audience as well as their minds, the play will work better, because it's a narrative art form."

"From as long as, literally as far back as I can remember I've liked puns, word jokes, I can literally recall looking at a comic at the age of six or seven and I remember what I enjoyed and what it was precisely and how the joke worked."

"True friendship multiplies the good in life and divides its evils. Strive to have friends, for life without friends is like life on a desert island... to find one real friend in a lifetime is good fortune; to keep him is a blessing."

"Whole communities are growing up without fathers or male role models. Bringing up a family in the best of circumstances is not easy. To try to do it by placing the entire burden on women - 91% of single-parent families in Britain are headed by the mother, according to census data - is practically absurd and morally indefensible."

"Maybe other people will try to limit me but I don't limit myself."

"They died hard, those savage men - like wounded wolves at bay. They were filthy, and they were lousy, and they stunk. And I loved them."