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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Americans think the only funny Brits are John Cleese, Benny Hill and whoever makes our toothpaste. They're not laughing with us, they are laughing at us.”
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“Here is Edward Bear, coming downstairs now, bump, bump, bump, on the back of his head, behind Christopher Robin. It is, as far as he knows, the only way of coming downstairs, but sometimes he feels that there really is another way, if only he could stop bumping for a moment and think of it. And then he feels that perhaps there isn't.”
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“Excellence is an art won by training and habituation.”
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“If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence.”
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“The virtues [moral excellence] therefore are engendered in us neither by nature nor yet in violation of nature; nature gives us the capacity to receive them, and this capacity is brought to maturity by habit.”
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“If my boyfriend finds me sexy, then I don't need that kind of male attention from anyone else.”
Source : "Women of Britain - your designers need you!" by Jess Cartner-Morley, www.theguardian.com. February 27, 2009. 
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“Cheese crumbs spread before a pair of copulating rats will distract the female but not the male.”
Source : "Orgasm Trivia". TED Talk, www.motherjones.com. May 29, 2009.
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“Few males achieve any real freedom in their sexual relations even with their wives. Few males realise how badly inhibited they are on these matters.”
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“One can know everything and still be unable to accept the fact that sex and murder are fused in the male consciousness, so that the one without the imminent possibly of the other is unthinkable and impossible.”
