In France, I learned about wine and cheese.

I keep working under the delusion that someday a library will ask for my manuscripts.

I met an American woman and got married so I had to get a job.

I always liked spy stories.

A rose’s beautiful scent is extracted only when it is crushed.

And I have no doubt that every new example will succeed, as every past one has done, in showing that religion and Government will both exist in greater purity, the less they are mixed together.

The truth of my experience is that we are all a lot more alike than we are different.

For me, the American promise isn't just an idea or a theory - it's my life story.

Originality is when you mix two things that haven't been mixed.

When you've heard one bagpipe tune, you've heard them both.

Through watering the ground of affectionate love with cherishing love, And then sowing the seeds of wishing love and compassion, the medicinal tree of Bodhichitta will grow.

True individuality can be lonely.

That shot moved like... I was going to say a shop, but the shop's shut

I'm now at the age where I've got to prove that I'm just as good as I never was.