I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

Be nice wont you?" "I am nice, I'm always nice." "But not too nice. I mean don't make a religion out of it, niceness.

Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance

Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.

I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.

Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.

Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

She smelled like a mountain valley in springtime and made him dream of the future in a way he hadn’t considered possible.

She stared at her reflection in the glossed shop windows as if to make sure, moment by moment, that she continued to exist.

The intelligence of cinema-goers should be respected.

The camera does not like acting. The camera is only interested in filming behaviour. So you damn well learn your lines until you know them inside out, while standing on your head!

In the end, every scheme and every science is justified by itself or it is not justified at all.

People love gossip. It's the biggest thing that keeps the entertainment industry going.

The drive . . . is to create a one world government ... Do I mean conspiracy? Yes I do. I am convinced there is such a plot, international in scope . . . .

As idiotic as optimism can sometimes seem, it has a weird habit of paying off.

I hate the photo shoots. I hate all that stuff.

The most treasured asset in investment management is a steady hand at the tiller.