"Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system."

“I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.”

“Today is a new day. You will get out of it just what you put into it...If you have made mistakes, even serious mistakes, there is always another chance for you. And supposing you have tried and failed again and again, you may have a fresh start any moment you choose, for this thing that we call failure is not the falling down, but the staying down.”

“The keyhole is my lens as a writer.”

“As an actor, it's your job to find the way to play a character. I think you can latch on to some things that might have happened.”

“I would never live in anything I design. Life and art are different. My life is very precious to me - my art is precious to me. I love designing things for other people, but I don't like designing things for myself.”

“Once in pre-war days, when curiously-bonneted women drivers were familiar sights at the taxi-wheels, I cried out to one in my dismay: "Is there no speed limit in this mad city?""Oh, yes, monsieur," she answered sweetly over her shoulder, "but no one has ever succeeded in reaching it.”

“Shell estimates that after 2015 supplies of easy-to-access oil and gas will no longer keep up with demand.”

“I learned how to get in shape without getting certain muscles too big that make you look like a meathead.”