A truly feminine woman should always retain a little air of mystery.

I would rather be called a character actor than a star.

In New York people don't go to the theatre - they go to see hits.

I never see my movies. When they're on television, I click them away. Hollywood created an image, and I long ago reconciled myself with it. I was the French cliche.

Bodies lay strewn all around. Turkish and Wallachian warriors caught in the intimate indiscriminate embrace of death.

The person doing the learning is the person writing the book as much as the person reading it.

Less depends upon the choice of words than upon this, that their introduction shall be justified by pregnant theorems.

Making a definitive declaration of intent or meaning kills the photograph.

I think that's what makes a good rapper. Somebody who wants to push themselves and their audience further.

I'm paid to preach not to practice.

I write pretty much year-round, but I definitely do more when a deadline is looming.

I'm reminded of the day my daughter came in, looked over my shoulder at some Perl 4 code, and said, 'What is that, swearing?

I get up at the same time every morning.

Teach music and singing at school in such a way that it is not a torture but a joy for the pupil; instill a thirst for finer music in him, a thirst which will last for a lifetime.