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

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

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.

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

When a piece gets difficult, make faces.

Food availability is not really the issue. The quality of the food is what we recognize is the problem.

Men lie the most. Men lie all the time.

The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.

You must not only learn to live with tension, you must seek it out. You must learn to thrive on stress.

In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.

No one knows what is going to happen in the next few minutes, and yet people still go forward, because they have trust, because they have faith.

Find your own style. Don't spend your savings trying to be someone else. You're not more important, smarter, or prettier because you wear a designer dress.

Where our work is, there let our joy be.

A man isn't tiny or giant enough to defeat anything.