Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

The cinema is truth 24 frames-per-second

Nobody, man or woman, has ever wrecked a good marriage.

Men are born ignorant, not stupid. They are made stupid by education.

Definition of tragedy: A hero destroyed by the excess of his virtues

Mushrooms grow on cow turds. I love that. I think that's why you giggle the first hour.

Could I tell them I was sorry their loved one was dead, when he’d tried to kill me? There was no rule of etiquette for this; even my grandmother would have been stymied.

The Iranian people have a proud past. They merit a great future.

I don't have to keep a diary. It seems like for the last 40 years my life has been lived in the press, so I can Google any date in my history and find out what I was doing.

Learning to love is hard and we pay dearly for it. It takes hard work and a long apprenticeship, for it is not just for a moment that we must learn to love, but forever.

I don't think I've aged gracefully.