Any individual is greater than the Milky Way.

In football, the worst blindness is only seeing the ball.

Until the day when a wise black man can become our ambassador in Paris, we will forever be a pre-Brazil.

The bed is a metaphysical piece of furniture.

I envy stupidity, stupidity is eternal.

Love is impossible without bite marks.

Memory is a swindler, a forger emeritus of facts and figures.

To love is to be faithful to those who cheat on us.

Money buys everything, even true love.

Not all women like being beaten up. Only the normal ones.

I only believe in those who can still blush.

I'm attracted to short screenplays. Nobody really wants a film to be over two hours, or at least I don't.

It's all right if things don't change today. We're gonna keep doing what we do. The world can either catch up or not.

Let me say first that reading is my favorite pastime, bar none. If I couldn't read, I don't know what I'd do. But as a writer, it's both a blessing and a curse. You absorb technique as you go along.

Art comes into the highest part of the mind, that with which we can know the presence of God.

Elvis, he was unique. And he loved the blues, it was a pity he didn't do more.

I know Im British. I havent spent much time in the U.K., but my parents are British, my family heritage is British, so if I wasnt British, what would I be? I am British.

Running in the morning has me appreciate all the choices that come later in the day. The choices I make after running seem healthier, wiser and kinder.

It is not so much the example of others we imitate as the reflection of ourselves in their eyes and the echo of ourselves in their words.

I'm just here so I won't get fined.

A whole lifetime was too short to bring out, the full flavour; to extract every ounce of pleasure, every shade of meaning.