After you've read a novel, you only retain a vague memory of its contents. You remember the atmosphere, the odd image or phrase or vivid cameo.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

It is not about never doubting, it is about coming out on the other side with twice the faith you had going into your doubt.

There is not a thought that is being thought in the West or the East that is not active in some Indian mind

I don't like fashionistas. They only wear the brand. You want to become a fashionista? Easy! Spend money.

After an hour your power goes sour.

You are able to create an environment so that the creative process can take place and that you can get people to perform at their highest levels.

If some of the recovery money had gone to cities instead of states, the urban population, read "Black" and "Brown," would be better off with recovery jobs.

Genius, even, as it is the greatest good, is he greatest harm.

Companies that put a mandated parental leave in place save money in the first year, FIRST YEAR. Because they don't have to hire to replace the woman.

Plato did claim that the unexamined life was not worth living. Oedipus Rex was not so sure.

There are only two kinds of songs; there's the blues, and there's zip-a-dee-doo-dah.