"Creating art alone doesn't seem to fill us up, in my opinion, until we begin to truly communicate with it."

“For me, wearing a tie is a pleasure, a recherche one but a pleasure nonetheless. You could say that I'm avoiding tie avoidance. My own gorgeous collection runs into hundreds and I buy them the way I buy books - I simply can't pass a shop. I have loved them since I could spend my own money on them.”

“My gay audience has been with me from the beginning.”

“Show me one Iranian diplomat we killed! I can show you many Saudi diplomats who were killed by Iran.”

“It's like there's some unwritten rule that if you're mates, you can say what you want to each other, and you don't really get that annoyed about it.”

“He thought that in the beauty of the world were hid a secret. He thought that the world’s heart beat at some terrible cost and that the world’s pain and its beauty moved in a relationship of diverging equity and that in this headlong deficit the blood of multitudes might ultimately be exacted for the vision of a single flower.”

Source : Cormac McCarthy (2013). “The Border Trilogy”, p.268, Pan Macmillan

“Why is it there are so many more horses' ***** than there are horses?”

“Other than that, I really enjoyed the play.”

“To be totally without stress is to be dead.”