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One of the penalties of being president of the United States is that you must subsist for four years without drinking anything except Californian wine.
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If you imagine writing 1,000 words a day, which most journalists do, that would be a very long book a year.
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I am shy to admit that I have followed the advice given all those years ago by a wise archbishop to a bewildered young man: that moments of unbelief 'don't matter,' that if you return to a practice of the faith, faith will return.
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Americans are always mortified when I tell them this, but in England, it's a tradition to put your plaques and photographs and awards and gold records and stuff in your bathroom. I don't know why.
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The Aga Khan Awards for Architecture seeks to make a better place in physical terms. This means trying to bring values into environments, buildings, and contexts that improve the quality of life for future generations.
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I turned down a knighthood. It would be like having to wear a suit every day of your life.
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I'm not an awards-driven person in anything. Anytime you do get caught up in that, you usually end up getting whacked.
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Y Tu Mama Tambien' is one of the first unrated movies to be nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay. But many video stores won't take a movie that's not rated, so I had to make the movie an R.
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For dash and gallantry the bloodthirsty Scots, Australians and Canadians led the way, with the impetuous Irish close behind. The Australian to my mind were the most aggressive, and managed to keep their form in spite of their questionable discipline. Out of the line they were undoubtedly difficult to handle, but once in it they loved a fight. They were a curious mixture of toughness and sentimentality...
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It's in the private places of the heart that freedom is made or unmade by the discipline we create there.
