I wanted to be an English teacher. I wanted to do it for the corduroy jackets with patches on the side. When I got to college as I was walking across campus one day I ripped off a little flyer for this sketch-comedy group. It ended up being one of the greatest things I've ever done.

Here's my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket then there's this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering.

I'm a Hollywood writer so I put on my sports jacket and take off my brain.

Religion was used as an ideology as a system of control. When they forced the veil upon women they were using it as an instrument of control in the same way that in Mao's China people were wearing Mao jackets and women were not supposed to wear any makeup.

Going to the movies was a big event in my youth. My father would be the initiator - he'd have me put on a jacket to see a film.

This morning someone sent me a very funny photo of me holding their puppy. We have matching colour jackets.

Women thrive on novelty and are easy meat for the commerce of fashion. Men prefer old pipes and torn jackets.

I think every chef not just in America but across the world has a double-edged sword - two jackets one that's driven a self-confessed perfectionist thoroughbred hate incompetence and switch off the stove take off the jacket and become a family man.

My girlfriend bought me a down jacket she said it fit my personality.

I like cool jackets - a nice fall or winter coat. You can get a lot of use out of it and you'll wear it frequently so it can really set the tone of your uniform for the season.

Book-jacket design may become a lost art like album-cover design without which late-20th-century iconography would have been pauperized.

It was Julie Burchill who decreed that beyond a certain age a man should not be seen in a leather jacket.