I think you can get better in mathematics on a school level, but when you're talking about being a mathematician, I think that's definitely a gift of genes or whatever.

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

For hearts gone by in times past, unassuming, with not even a glance. In another lifetime, perhaps

Any day above ground is a good day.

The only way to be inclined to write is to write to your inclination.

I took my work seriously, but not as a craft. More as a life.

Be a lamp unto yourselves! Work out your liberation with diligence! Fill your mind with compassion!

To have suffered much is like knowing many languages. Thou hast learned to understand all.

Boredom is my worst enemy. It's killed a lot of my friends, but it won't get me. When I get bored, I go risk my life somewhere.

There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham)

The treacheries of ambition never cease.

Jesus undid everything that Adam did, and did everything Adam failed to do.