In music, she'd found a perfect language, a way of expressing the inexpressible.

An artist's domain was private, a haven for practicing and experimenting, the one place where failure was still allowed.

There was that sense of abandoning the familiar for the unknown that characterizes all journeys made for the first time.

I buy when other people are selling.

One's life, from being an exterior thing, grows inwards. Its intensity stays the same; and, d'you know, it's most mysterious, the corners in which the joy of living can sometimes hide away.

When you are absolutely, positively sure you know all there is to know about anything, you're as far from the truth as you will ever be.

I don't think that they know fully what's happening with Miss Match so therefore I don't know how many more if any, if the show's even gonna keep going.

They say don't believe your own hype, but if you don't why would anyone else? To be great you have to believe you can do great things.

To be a member of the Communist Party is to have a taste of the police state. It is a diluted taste but it is bitter and unforgettable.

There is an obligation both moral, but also legal, I believe, against a reporter disclosing something which would so severely compromise national security.

Yes, being educated is definitely an advantage. But having said that, I've met so many people in life who haven't done very well at school but who are still really bright.

Surely there is a time to submit to guidance and a time to take one's own way at all hazards.