"I don't know any girls who appreciate getting a close-up snap of a guy's privates out of nowhere."

“What do they teach them at these schools?”

“Most of screenplay writing is deciding which voices you want to listen to and take on board.”

Source : Source: collider.com

“Art is the escape from personality.”

“Even when I was in my 20s and at my most beautiful, I was never obsessed with my looks. I didn't dye my hair or wear make-up.”

“Cutting corners no doubt makes the job easier for the government, but making the government's job easier is rarely a priority. Preserving the Constitution, fighting off the nibblers and chippers, even nibblers and chippers with good intentions, was once regarded by conservatives as the first duty of the citizen. It still is.”

“Time is, in fact, a cross to bear, it passes on inexorably and remorselessly, destroying everything in its wake, save art and works of the intellect.”

“I would say I live half in New York and half in Claridge's. How decadent! How hysterical!”

Source : "Muse flash". Interview with Polly Vernon, www.theguardian.com. May 31, 2003.

“Most mothers think that to keep young people away from love-making it is enough never to speak of it in their presence.”