By increasing the size of the keyhole today's playwrights are in danger of doing away with the door.

If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.

The social sciences were for all those who had not yet decided what to do with their lives, and for all those whose premature frustrations led them into the sterile alleys of confrontation.

Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

Monica Seles: I'd hate to be next door to her on her wedding night.

Flogging. The only solution to every problem. I warrant even the culprit himself doesn't know! It was just... his... turn!

I imagine hell like this: Italian punctuality, German humour and English wine.

Love is an act of endless forgiveness, a tender look which becomes a habit.

Beliefs are what divide people. Doubt unites them.

Terrorism is the war of the poor, and war is the terrorism of the rich.

If you're going to be a prisoner of your own mind, the least you can do is make sure it's well furnished.

When the rate of change outside is more than what is inside, be sure that the end is near.

One thing I think is least realistic is that there were five people that made decisions in the fictional 'West Wing.' In real life, there are about five million people that weigh in.

I would rather be without a state than without a voice.

Since each soul is some part of the Whole, it is impossible that any soul can be lost.

We've invested millions of dollars in tourism. Now they're trying to industrialize and pollute the ocean. It doesn't make any sense to me at all.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

When I first came to Oxford, I struggled to feel comfortable in an Anglican, public school-dominated institution.

The song that we hear with our ears is only the song that is sung in our hearts.

If you work at comedy too laboriously, you can kill what's funny in the joke.

If you sweep a house, and tend its fires and fill its stove, and there is love in you all the years you are doing this, then you and that house are married, that house is yours.