I am actually a terrible coward. Fear is a constant fact of my life.

Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.

I believe that one can aspire to as much as one wants to.

I don't know much about my family history except that my father had straight black hair and his ancestors probably came from India.

Life is so short, it seems careless not to use it all.

To pretend you don't feel a certain strangeness after living in England for 40 years is a fallacy.

The thing about television is that you can't fake it. Your sense of discovery must be genuine; you can't pretend to be surprised.

Poetry says the things that I can't say. I read a lot, but I never write it.

I love living in London.

How can you interview somebody about something fairly technical if you start on the wrong foot by not even knowing his name?

I can't think of any sentiment which is finer than being in a position to give people something they like. I love giving, I am rather embarrassed at receiving.

She harbored the childhood presumption that the truly scary things could only find her in the night.

Happiness comes towards those which believe in him

We don't believe in a small America. We believe in a big America - a tolerant America, a just America, an equal America - that values the service of every patriot.

A successful career has been full of blunders.

Seek not to inquire what the morrow will bring with it.

Build houses and settle down; plant gardens and eat what they produce.

It should be not only a synergy, but a complicity between the viewer and the artist, and so I'm wide open to that.

On GOP Tax Cuts: They'll take food out of the mouths of children to give tax cuts to the wealthiest.

There is no impossibility to him who stands prepared to conquer every hazard. The fearful are the failing.

The arts are the best insurance policy a city can take on itself.