"What is the emotion of an empty inbox? An unliked Post? An ignored dating app message? I think there's a great loneliness that much of our society is running from, and we search for relief in our phones and computers, our online communities, our social networks of friends."

“You don't own art. What does that mean? We are trustees of art. Art is in transit with us. That is why an auction is a wonderful thing. You clap your hands and the objects fly away like doves and find other places where they will be protected, loved. That's what I believe.”

“I think if people who are attacking me or against me, if they would just watch one of my films, they would - they may not agree with me politically on all the things I'm saying. But they will know at the end of the film that I love this country and that I have a heart. And they'll have a good laugh throughout the film.”

“I don't want to go to the Bahamas on holiday. I hate islands. I want to go to Brittany, where it's cold and raining, and there's nothing fancy about it.”

“She hated that she was still so desperate for a glimpse of him, but it had been this way for years.”

Source : Julia Quinn (2007). “The secret diaries of Miss Miranda Cheever”

“The best way to neutralise fear is by laughing. You can see the dynamics of this in action when people watch a horror movie. You'll notice that immediately after a good fright, following the sceams of terror - which is the point of maximum experience of fear - people will always laugh immediately afterward, as this is the natural way to release the fear. By laughing at something you also take away the perception that it has any power over you.”

“I don't even know at what age I started, because it's always been there. Performing... creating... it's in my DNA.”

“They are all gone into the world of light, and I alone sit lingering here.”

Source : 'They Are All Gone' from 'Silex Scintillans' (1650-5)

“We never cry out to God and receive a returned check stamped 'Insufficient grace.'”