"My daughter Karen was born in 1958, the year my first Paddington book came out, so she grew up with him."

“You become so obsessed, and that's not a bad thing for a movie. Serve it with that sense that it's the whole world.”

“A poem is a flexible thing, and a poem is a poem.”

Source : "New Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera Sings Out". Interview with Brendan Francis Newnam, www.dinnerpartydownload.org. July 3, 2015.

“Life is not a matter of place, things or comfort; rather, it concerns the basic human rights of family, country, justice and human dignity.”

“There is nothing so fleeting as the memory of benefits received.”

Source : Francesco Guicciardini (1890). “Counsels and Reflections of Francesco Guicciardini”

“I, interestingly, had dated a woman in the Eisenhower Administration briefly, and it was ironic to me 'cause I was trying to do toher what Eisenhower has been doing to the country for the last eight years.”

“Charlie Sheen is who again? Denise is engaged?”

“God loves us. May we discover the beauty of loving and being loved.”

“Well, developers do want to touch a lot of customers. We have to make our platform very popular in order for them to do that. If we make their jobs easier, then they'll be more likely to stay on the Windows platform.”