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There are times when I'm doing QI and I'm going, 'Ha ha, yeah, yeah,' and inside I'm going 'I want to fucking die. I … want … to … fucking … die.'(Sou...more

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It’s the strangest thing about this church - it is obsessed with sex, absolutely obsessed. Now, they will say we, with our permissive society and rude...more

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Having a great intellect is no path to being happy.

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Seriousness is no more a guarantee of truth, insight, authenticity or probity, than humour is a guarantee of superficiality and stupidity.

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How dare you? How dare you create a world in which there is such misery that is not our fault? It's not right. It's utterly, utterly evil. Why should ...more

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You can't just say there is a god because the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children.

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Music takes me to places of illimitable sensual and insensate joy, accessing points of ecstasy that no angelic lover could ever locate, or plunging me...more

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Anger fed him and clothed him and he owed it much.

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Great writers, I discovered, were not to be bowed down before and worshipped, but embraced and befriended. Their names resounded through history not b...more