The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

The Oxford manner is, alas, indefinable; I was going to say indefensible.

I never knew any painter worthy of the name who paid the smallest attention to what a critic says, even in conversation.

The law reports in newspapers contain perhaps the only real history of England that has any relation to truth.

I never 'shunned' L.A., like people say. And I do think you can raise children well there, but it's definitely harder.

No one in the Emirates is above the law and accountability.

Treat your life like a game.

I'm alive today, I'm well, I'm working, I'm still creative. What more can I say, really?

In a democracy, power is not permanent.

It sometimes happens that a woman is handsomer at twenty-nine than she was ten years before.

One of the things that people complain about is loneliness, disconnectedness. If you live in a society where your life is rarely threatened and most of your relationships are more on an economic exchange basis, then this could leave people feeling less connected.

I'm a human being first and foremost, and I have something to say that I think is worthwhile. 'Blue Caprice' is just the second installment of so much more coming.

Time is the devourer of all things.

A best-seller is the golden touch of mediocre talent.

My parents had this incredibly vital relationship with an audience, like muscle with blood. This was the main competition I had for my parents' attention: an audience.

But what I did sense was an emptiness like a black hole inside of him and there was no predicting what might emerge from a place like that.

You are not very good if you are not better than your best friends imagine you to be.

I'm getting a wider circle of fans now. More women, more middle class people.

But the nuclear powers still cling tenaciously to their weapons.

Assuming that his talent can survive the increasing strain, there is one scarcely avoidable danger that lies ahead of the pupil on his road to mastery.

Politicians do not enter into wars lightly. It is usually the military themselves who are keener to become involved.

Writing in the electronic world you imagine a sound and then you have to go and find it. Its not like imagining a flute and then making that sound materialize. Thats easy

I can and I will do this.

What a child can do in cooperation today, he can do alone tomorrow.

This is America, not a banana republic.

And you shall teach the Torah to your children and you should speak about it when you are at home and when you travel, before you lie down to sleep and when you wake up.

If I'd been born into a hearing family and went to a public school, I would have probably felt much more isolated, and being deaf would have become my identity.

Recollection is the only paradise from which we cannot be turned out.