I treated Art as the supreme reality and life as a mere mode of fiction.

The best way to appreciate your job is to imagine yourself without one.

Be yourself; everyone else is already taken.

Always forgive your enemies nothing annoys them so much.

It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating.

Everyone may not be good, but there's always something good in everyone. Never judge anyone shortly because every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.

To live is the rarest thing in the world. Most people exist, that is all.

Be yourself; everyone else is taken.

Women are made to be loved, not understood.

Some cause happiness wherever they go; others, whenever they go.

I am so clever that sometimes I don't understand a single word of what I am saying.

Be willing to constantly travel towards the dreams of your future, and don’t be afraid to give up the good for the great.

War is too important to be left to the generals

Art is made by the alone for the alone.

We can generally read a man's purpose towards us in his manner, if his purposes are of much moment to us.

As long as we've still got crazy "what if" ideas, we can continue [Black Mirror]. It's outpacing reality that's probably the challenge.

Any time you have a situation in which you are calling for more time rather than calling for Iraq to immediately comply, it plays into the hands of Saddam Hussein.

I can really fish - I've been fishing since I was a kid.

An acquaintance had become a lover, might become a husband, but would retain all that she had noted in the acquaintance; and love must confirm an old relation rather than reveal a new one.

My affiliation with England is borne out by the fact that I do come back for periodic visits.

In schools where parent involvement is greater, you do have higher achievement levels and better functioning, better performing schools.