"I am keenly aware that I benefit from a wonderful tradition in the UK of designing and making."

“Provocation polio. That is the truth about those outbreaks of polio. And I offer a well considered personal opinion that polio is a man made disease.”

“The office of president is a bastardized thing, half royalty and half democracy that nobody knows whether to genuflect or spit.”

Source : Jimmy Breslin (2012). “How the Good Guys Finally Won: Notes from an Impeachment Summer”, p.40, Open Road Media

“I've never really done anything to create what has happened. It creates itself. I'm here because it happened. But I didn't do anything to make it happen apart from saying 'Yes'”

“Love knows not distance; it hath no continent; its eyes are for the stars.”

Source : Gilbert Parker “The Complete Works of Gilbert Parker”, Library of Alexandria

“I'm just trying to make my favorite music. That's how I work; I just do things based on the way they feel to me. I want to be touched by the music I'm making. Luckily, other people have shared that response to my work over the years.”

Source : "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

“Let yourself daydream sometimes... Allow spontaneous images to come and go. Capture one in a sketch. These images express connections with your inner self.”

“Ours is a country built more on people than on territory. The Jews will come from everywhere: from France, from Russia, from America, from Yemen... Their faith is their passport.”

“It is never possible for a novelist to deny time inside the fabric of his novel: he must cling, however lightly, to the thread of his story, he must touch the interminable tapeworm, otherwise he becomes unintelligible, which, in his case, is a blunder.”