Quotes from Stephen Fry

I get an urge, like a pregnant elephant, to go away and give birth to a book.

To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after all the same word we use to describe... essence

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do.

I have to mime at parties when everyone sings Happy Birthday... Mime or mumble and rumble and growl and grunt so deep that only moles, manta rays and mushrooms can hear me.

As someone who worked hard for a Labour victory in the 90s, do I regret it? Not really. It was bound to happen. And it'll happen with the next government, and the one after it. Because all governments serve us. They serve the filth.

My parents were marvelously educated people.

Personally, I'd never seen a graphic novel. I knew they existed because friends of mine like Jonathan Ross collect them and some very literate and intelligent people really rate the graphic novel as a form.

Education is the sum of what students teach each other between lectures and seminars.

I'm afraid I don't believe there is such a thing as blasphemy, just outrage from those insecure in their own faith.

My father was all brain and little heart.

It's now very common to hear people say 'I'm rather offended by that'.

I am a lover of truth, a worshipper of freedom, a celebrant at the altar of language and purity and tolerance.

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathingthey are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me.

When you've seen a nude infant doing a backward somersault you know why clothing exists.

Weve all met people who are supposedly incredibly intelligent but dont know which way to sit on a lavatory.