Nigel Barton: Eh dad, why do you always walk in the middle of the road — Dennis Potter

"My only regret is to die four pages too soon."

"The blossom is out in full now, it’s plum tree, it looks like apple blossom but it’s white. It’s the whitest, frothiest blossomest blossom that ever could be, and I can see it. Things are both more trivial than they ever were and more important than they ever were, and the difference between the trivial and the important doesn’t seem to matter. But the now-ness of everything is absolutely wondrous."

"Georgie Pringle: The word of the LORD came again unto me, saying, Son of man, there were two women, the daughters of one mother: And they committed whoredoms in Egypt; they committed whoredoms in their youth: there were their breasts pressed, and there they bruised the teats of their virginity."

"Jack: (to camera) My office! (indicates mess) Im sorry about all this, but we in the Labour Party link drabness with idealism, see. Im a paid agent of the party, but whenever I need to know anything I have to ring up Conservative Central Office. Its a very plush place, that - carpets plucking at your bleeding ankles. You see, they link drabness with idealism, too."

"Jack: Youll have to compromise, smile, concern yourself with your public image, measure your words as carefully as possible... and turn yourself into a dutiful party hack! [chuckles] Never mind, Nigel, never mind."

"You cannot make a pair of croak-voiced Daleks appear benevolent, even if you dress one of them in an Armani suit and call the other Marmaduke."