I've always burned my bridges before me.

Too late! The two saddest words in any tongue.

[On Rachmaninoff:] He was the most Russian of them all, like a cathedral in the snow. Holy, wintry, infinite, he was all the Russias.

[When asked how many husbands she'd had:] Two of my own, my dear, and several of my friends'.

[On Nijinksy:] Ah, he took my breath away! The body that man had, the controlled power, the iron fragility. He was a note of music. He was dance!

Lazy people always work harder than anyone else; they're so eager to get through and lie down again.

I always loved being with older people. Now they're so difficult to find.

The human mind is the most unreliable things in the universe. So control it.

For an instant Harry imagined... Just for an instant, before his imagination blew a fuse and called an emergency shut down and told him never to imagine that again.

Bert knows it would take more than a little row to get between us. Because friends like us, like Bert and me, we'll always be together.

It was cruel. Like opening a birdcage to let the bird fly out, whilst all the while it's tethered by the leg, and freedom is only an illusion.

My suggestion is that we should first work to ensure the Third World has clean drinking water and sanitation.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things, and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for, they think the whole thing is a fraud.

At first it was my brother's songwriting and I was just doing what everyone told me.

I still haven't made a film that defines who I am.

We've learned to see the world in gasps.

There is a larger frame to the painting than the one that bounds our life's events.