Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

Girls are like pianos. When they're not upright, they're grand.

That's what show business is, sincere insincerity.

Do unto others, then run.

Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.

I'm not against half naked girls - not as often as I'd like to be.

The odds against there being a bomb on a plane are a million to one, and against two bombs a million times a million to one. Next time you fly, cut the odds and take a bomb.

Just because nobody complains doesn't mean all parachutes are perfect.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: "Oh well," and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

I thought I couldn't afford to take her out and smoke as well. So I gave up cigarettes. Then I took her out and one day I looked at her and thought: 'Oh well,' and I went back to smoking again, and that was better.

Just because nobody complains doesnt mean all parachutes are perfect.

In my songs, the sex is all subliminal. It's subliminal, spiritual.

Passions spin the plot We are betrayed by what is false within.

When life gives you lemons, find someone who has vodka and throw a party.

Charleston, South Carolina, is about a 90-minute drive northwest of Beaufort and Parris Island. It is an old city reborn with new charm and an influx of snowbirds from the North attracted by its ease, comfort and accessibility.

Sooner or later you've heard all your best friends have to say. Then comes the tolerance of real love.

I find myself fascinating.

In movies we tend make things black and white: you're either this, or you're that.

Dieting isn't complicated: if you eat 2,000 calories, you have to burn it off; simple as that.

When you buy a ticket, you're basically voting for whatever you see.

Poverty is the worst form of violence.

I've been writing, in one way or another, for as long as I can remember.

Dating is a battleground filled with deception and infidelity.

To my mind, forgetting is a risky strategy for living. Memory is essential to us. It is DNA. We need to remember, and we need to imagine. That's why we have books, writing, fiction.

Destiny itself is like a wonderful wide tapestry in which every thread is guided by an unspeakably tender hand, placed beside another thread and held and carried by a hundred others.

We lie to one another every day, in the sweetest way, often unconsciously. We dress ourselves and compose ourselves in order to present ourselves to one another.

If I want to be a better person for whoever is in my life, I have to learn.

Children can write poetry and then, unless they're poets, they stop when reach puberty.

I consider myself pretty lazy, but I look back and check out the stuff I've done, and I say, 'God, that's a lot of stuff for a lazy guy.' It's a paradox, I suppose, being both things.

Obviously, 'Homeland' is not just a spy thriller. It's more than that, but 'Tyrant' will be a bit more of a palace drama. It'll be about the families, but there will be political intrigue as well.

We were having a sleepover when I was eight or nine, and we all got to stay up late and watch the original 'Frankenstein.' It was uncensored, so as a child, I saw the scene where he throws the little girl into the lake, and that freaked me out. Though not as much as when he hangs the hunchback.

My background is economics and maths. I think one of the reasons I studied humanities at all, or even went into journalism, is because, like, science and maths wasn't cool in England when I was growing up. No one ever talked to the engineering students at Oxford.

I'm much more interested in living specific experiences in films.

To win respect, the networks seem to feel they have to keep absurdly overstating their anchors' reporting cred.

Any creative process comes with a level of self-analysis and self-criticism. There's a lot of waking up in the middle of the night going, 'Oh, I wish I had done that differently.'