Comedy is simply a funny way of being serious.

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.

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.

Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.

An exceptional future can only be built on the transformation of the mess I’ve made, not the elimination of it.

Be as audaciousAs you wish.By all means look to the heavens.

As an adult, getting paid thousands of dollars a week to say, “Aye, Sir. Course laid in” is a seriously sweet gig, but when I was a teenager, it sucked.

Abstract art has helped us to experience the emotional power inherent in pure form.

I suppose I'm a lapsed Catholic. You would consider me an atheist or agnostic.

There is no biblical Christianity without the cross at its center.

The nearer I approach death the more I feel like one who is in sight of land at last and is about to anchor in one's home port after a long voyage.

I'm totally crazy, I know that.

My problem is that I think everybody needs to work as hard as I worked when I was in my prime.

What do we do now, now that we are happy?