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On the rare occasions when I spend a night in Oxford, the keeping of the hours by the clock towers in New College, and Merton, and the great booming of Tom tolling 101 times at 9 pm at Christ Church are inextricably interwoven with memories and regrets and lost joys. The sound almost sends me mad, so intense are the feelings it evokes.
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No man has a good enough memory to be a successful liar.
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I would never want to do something just for the sake of being independent or for the sake of doing big films. I'm always surprised by the material I'm attracted to. And that's how I like it. I like to be surprised.
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I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.
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Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
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Lenin was the first to discover that capitalism 'inevitably' caused war; and he discovered this only when the First World War was already being fought. Of course he was right. Since every great state was capitalist in 1914.
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I take the walk to be the externalization of an interior seeking so that the analogy is first of all between the external and the internal.
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I read my first book on Woodrow Wilson at age 15, and I was hooked.
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If at first you don't succeed/You can dust it off and try again/Dust yourself off and try again.
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That's already been tried before only means the first attempt got it wrong.
