A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

All of us have moments in our lives that test our courage. Taking children into a house with a white carpet is one of them.

If the world was perfect, it wouldn't be.

The future is something which every one reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

At the bottom of enmity between strangers lies indifference.

I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

We must not always talk in the market-place of what happens to us in the forest.

Maybe you are searching among the branches, for what only appears in the roots.

The promise given was a necessity of the past: the word broken is a necessity of the present.

There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.

There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.

Wisely, and slow. They stumble that run fast.

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

I can bear any pain as long as it has meaning.

Courage is being scared to death... and saddling up anyway.

When the dog looks at you, the dog is not thinking what kind of a person you are. The dog is not judging you.

An idea is salvation by imagination

I don't do drugs, I am drugs

I recommend that the Statue of Liberty be supplemented by a Statue of Responsibility on the west coast.

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

The English contribution to world cuisine - the chip.