Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same, irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

I think our police are excellent, probably because I have not done anything that has occasioned being beaten up by these good men.

Breakfast is a notoriously difficult meal to serve with a flourish.

Congealed fat is pretty much the same irrespective of the delicacy around which it is concealed.

If you resolve to give up smoking, drinking, and loving, you don't actually live longer; it just seems longer.

Bricks without straw are more easily made than imagination without memories.

Pride goes before a fall

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

And I just think that to introduce an unknown Shakespeare is thrilling, too - not to do Hamlet or Romeo and Juliet, to do the richer Shakespeare. People will come to this and not know the story.

I'm still getting used to being called a composer. A poseur, maybe.

By the late 1970s, repression and economic chaos were causing increasing unrest throughout Latin America. Army strongmen were forced to cede power in Peru, Argentina, Uruguay, Brazil, Ecuador, Bolivia, Nicaragua, El Salvador, Honduras and the Dominican Republic.

I like to regard myself as someone who's capable of critical thought, that is to say, who can evaluate claims.

The world seems a lonesome place when mother has passed away and only memories of her are left.

Passing beauties are only the fugitive reflections of the eternal.

I gave my life to the Group Theatre, because in it I'm building something for myself. What I build, I am.

I blog because I have something to say.

Written and directed by French showman Georges Melies, 'Le Voyage' features one of the most indelible images in cinema history: the wounded Man in the Moon bleeding like a particularly runny Brie, grimacing in pain with a space capsule protruding from his right eye.

When I write, I try to think back to what I was afraid of or what was scary to me, and try to put those feelings into books.

A real thank you does not come by e-mail. They come in the mail in an envelope. And what comes out of an envelope is a beautiful thing to touch and to handle and to pass around for everyone to read.

The world is what you think of it. So think of it differently, and your life will change.

The universe is not required to be in perfect harmony with human ambition.

How can I not believe that there is a God who exists and loves, when the people before me are infused with that love and pour it out daily?

Misery loves company but company does not reciprocate.

I think we should bring up our children with much less pressure to compete and get ahead: no comparing one child with another, at home or in school; no grades. Let athletics be primarily for fun, and let them be organized by children and youths themselves.

Some artists shrink from self-awareness, fearing that it will destroy their unique gifts and even their desire to create. The truth of the matter is quite opposite.

To me, Helsinki is one big movie studio.

I think calling what Paul Ryan is doing a 'budget' is lending some validity to it. It is not a budget. If it were a budget, he could justify his revenue projections, he could justify his cuts, and he can't. This is a scheme to rob the poor and give to the rich.

I believe in content, and I go accordingly.

Tech is a funny industry; I don't think there is any other industry on the planet that reinvents itself every 10-12 years.