He informed Byrdie that his social engineering ambitions betrayed all the delusions of grandeur that you might expect from the son of a poet.

Lee explained to her that art for art’s sake is an upper-class aesthetic. To create art divorced from any purpose, you can’t be living a life driven by need and desire.

When the past is hard to explain, it’s best to concentrate on the future.

The library, like the thrift shop, specialised in the leavings of the elderly dead.

A confident decision makes a lasting goal.

Times of transition are strenuous, but I love them. They are an opportunity to purge, rethink priorities, and be intentional about new habits. We can make our new normal any way we want.

If I'm on holiday, I'm active on the beach, I play tennis, I run, I swim a lot. It's just about making the workouts fun, I think, and then it doesn't really feel that bad.

Any time you play a character for a long period of time, regardless of how close it is to you, it infiltrates your life. It's impossible for it not to.

I drink no cider, but feast on Philadelphia beer.

Israel must be wiped off the map.

If you give what you do not need, it is not giving.

It's a token for the arcade games at Laser Sport Time!" Dan hissed. "Uncle Alistair doesn't think so," Amy murmured. "He's a numismatist." "He takes his clothes off in public?" Dan said.

Being a Christian means having love. That is unbelievably difficult and, at the same time, incredibly simple.

At the end of the day, an actor is only a cog in the wheel.