A library is a palace of dreams.

More varied than any landscape was the landscape in the sky, with islands of gold and silver, peninsulas of apricot and rose against a background of many shades of turquoise and azure.

Perhaps the world's second worst crime is boredom. The first is being a bore.

On close inspection, this device turned out to be a funereal juke box - the result of mixing Lloyd's of London with the principle of the chewing gum dispenser.

All I want is the best of everything and there's very little of that left.

Intelligent and alert, wistful but enthusiastic, frank yet tactful, assured without conceit and tender without sentimentality.

The truly fashionable are beyond fashion.

Isn't it sad that we only get upset about nasty things happening to people and places if television decides we should?

Miss Marilyn Monroe calls to mind the bouquet of a fireworks display, eliciting from her awed spectators an open-mouthed chorus of ohs and ahs.

I have the worst ear for criticism, even when I have created a stage set I like, I always hear the woman in the back of the dress circle, who says she doesn't like blue.

After twenty annual visits, I am still surprised each time I return to see this giant asparagus bed of alabaster and rose and green skyscrapers.

You ask me what forces me to speak? a strange thing

Leaving North Korea is not like leaving any other country. It is more like leaving another universe. I will never truly be free of its gravity, no matter how far I journey.

I knew how you liked long tales, " he said, giving her a wink. "There's sure to be plenty of those.""In Gaelic, " she said."All the better for learning it.

The progress of life shows a man the stuff of which he is made.

You can imagine what it was like for me to actually be sitting in a room with matching typewriters, working under the tutelage of this guy I so admired, both as a filmmaker and as a man.

This is your life!!! The children/husbands/lovers are just one chapter. The stronger we (women) get the more loving we can be- to all.

I'm not a deaf musician. I'm a musician who happens to be deaf.

Perhaps I really regard myself as an intelligent man only because throughout my entire life I've never been able to start or finish anything.

Violence produces only something resembling justice, but it distances people from the possibility of living justly, without violence.

It's a pity to shoot the pianist when the piano is out of tune.