Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be..

I was shown into a room. A red room. Red wallpaper, red curtains, red carpet. They said it was a sitting-room, but I don’t know why they’d decided to….

One thing House needs Wilson for is vanity. He needs someone to laugh at his jokes..

To be a head boy, you have to be very clever, you have to be a scholar, and I was never a scholar in any shape or form..

In books, day breaks, and night falls. In life, night rises from the ground. The day hangs on for as long as it can, bright and eager, absolutely and….

I think pain is a very - it's an extremely hard thing to empathize moment to moment. And you often don't remember your own pain, you know, that momen….

LA runs on optimism, enthusiasm and flattery. I think you can go a little bit crazy... It's just too damn sunny in every dimension - weatherwise, soc….

Driving a motorcycle is like flying. All your senses are alive. Being House is like flying, too. He's free of the gravity of what people think..

They, all of them, work incredibly hard to make me seem clever and heroic, neither of which I am..

People are more open about seeking help these days. They recognise the fact that the alternative to having a shrink is that you bore your friends stu….

Success on a cosmic level completely eludes me. I'm deeply suspicious of things being too good. It's part of my superstition, I think, to generate pa….

Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy..

People are falling all over themselves to send you free shoes and free cufflinks and colonic irrigations for two. Nobody ever offers you a free accep….

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed..

Newton's Third Law of Conversation, if it existed, would hold that every statement implies an equal and opposite statement. To say that I'd turned th….

I'm not a religious man... I find I am a fan of science. I believe in science. A humility before the facts. I find that a moving and beautiful thing.….

Piano was - well, all musical instruments were taught in this very rigid, formal, classical method when I was young..

I didn't realize House would be the central character, more the bitter comic relief appearing occasionally. I relish his wounded nature - the lamenes….

[...] and as I walked, I tried to see the funny side. It wasn't easy, and I'm still not sure that I managed it properly, but it's just something I li….

Winning a rowing race is not like winning anything else. Here's my theory: you're facing backwards, so you're looking at the people you're beating--a….

One of the principal goals in my life has been to avoid embarrassing my children by doing the job I do. I hope I've managed to do that, and I hope th….