I like pop music. I consider rock 'n' roll to be a branch of pop music.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

I AM NOT QUICK, NOT STRONG AS A BRICK, ME NEVER HAPPINESS PICK, IN MY DECISION I STICK, PEOPLE TRY TO TRICK, BUT MY HEART IS THICK.

Anyone in a state of seeking can never be happy. Only those who are constantly finding are fulfilled. And finding is not something that happens to us - it is something we do.

All those animals live a pretty dreary life, then they get chopped up and put on a griddle.

We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.

If you're a girl and you don't fit the very specific vision of what a girl should be, which is always from a man's perspective, then you're a little bit at a loss.

Faith is a mental attitude that is so convinced of its own idea - which so completely accepts it - that any contradiction is unthinkable and impossible.

I believe in a kind of fidelity to your own early ideas; it's a kind of antagonism in me to prevailing fads.

What is it that makes all of us end each day with the sense that we have not lived our time, but have been lived, used by what we do?

As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.

Let our countrymen know that the people alone can protect us against these evils of misgovernment.