"The press and politicians. A delicate relationship. Too close, and danger ensues. Too far apart and democracy itself cannot function without the essential exchange of information. Creative leaks, a discreet lunch, interchange in the Lobby, the art of the unattributable telephone call, late at night."

-- Howard Brenton

#Art Quotes #Night Quotes #Lunch Quotes

“I like Brad Pitt; I just have nothing to do with him.”
“An adult friend of Lincoln's: "Life was to him a school.”
“My anti-Americanism has become almost uncontrollable. It has possessed me, like a disease. It rises up in my throat like acid reflux, that fashionable American sickness. I now loathe the United States and what it has done to Iraq and the rest of the helpless world,”

Source : "I loathe America, and what it has done to the rest of the world" by Margaret Drabble, www.telegraph.co.uk. May 8, 2003.
“I'm proud to be paying taxes in the United States. The only thing is - I could be just as proud for half the money”

Source : Quoted in Reader's Digest, Oct. 1951
“There is no other reality than nature.”
“I was hiding out from the celebrity thing, I was smoking way too much dope, I was sitting on the couch, and just turning into a doughnut, and I really got irritated with myself.”
“For instance, why are we terrorizing this country, leading with murder and mayhem, when crime is actually on the decline, as somebody, as somebody mentioned?”
“Music is what I must do, business is what I need to do and politics is what I have to do”

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