(Can you understand your own dreams, which arise with mushrooms' rank richness in the night-forests within your skull?)

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Miami Beach is where neon goes to die.

This will remain the land of the free only so long as it is the home of the brave.

You hope people won't be tricky or miserable. If you're in public life, it's important not to be. If someone says, 'I like your programme, thank you,' you should be grateful. I am. Why be nasty?

The blue collar milieu was something that I really understood and resonated with me and I thought was underrepresented in American cinema.

I don't want to be lumped into any categories.

I can't walk five steps without someone on a walkie talkie going, 'She's wandering over there.' I'm pretty stuck, but hey, it's been great.

How much on outward show does all depend, If virtues from within no lustre lend! Strip off th'externals M and Y, the rest Proves Majesty itself is but a Jest.

Those remarkable, God-given eyes! That glorious, good-natured personality! Elijah's Frodo is a dazzling light in the doom and gloom of war and despair.

There were two ways of looking at the world, but only one when you are starving.