"Merely gathering knowledge may become the most useless work a man can do. What can you do to help and heal the world? That is the educational test."

“Wisdom is the best guide and faith is the best companion.”

“I also have to support my speaking voice by sitting in a way that engages the diaphragm in the way I would for singing.”

Source : "Soprano soundtrack" by Will Hodgkinson, www.theguardian.com. December 19, 2003.

“In spite of everything life is not without hope.”

“If you listen to a song and get an image in your head, and then you go home and watch mtv and the image they're showing is the same as the one in your head, kill yourself. You're better off coming back as a lobster.”

“I'd meet a new filmmaker that I'd always loved, and I'd think, "Great! I'm in the right place." It's a weird way to look at it, but I don't care as long as I'm able to make stuff that I want to make.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

“I'm not going to accept your challenge. There will be no duel." "Why not? Because I'm a woman?" "No, because I've seen the way you spinsters handle a pistol. You'd shoot me dead where I stood.”

“It's a real comfort zone for me to feel alien.”

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

“Here we have a saying: a good friend is someone who visits you when you are in prison. But a really good friend is someone who comes to hear your lectures.”

Source : Malcolm Bradbury (2012). “Rates of Exchange”, p.140, Pan Macmillan