In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

An Irish queer: a fellow who prefers women to drink.

There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.

My father made sure that I had lots of levels of education – from ballroom-dancing to painting, commando training, theatre and magic.

People don't know what it's like standing up there onstage, when you have a wall of people smiling at you.

Beauty exists where you least expect to find it.

In your hands or that of any other person, so much power would, no doubt, be dangerous. I am the only man in the world whom it would be safe to trust with it. Remember, I am a prophet!

I'm from that world where I feel so comfortable making small independent movies.

It's not my job to be popular. I'm goal-driven; my job is to get results.

As more people use social media to tell the story of the future, the wants and needs of more people will be reflected.

No man can ever end with being superior who will not begin with being inferior.

There's always a bit of truth in each rumour, the trouble is finding out which bit. - Tayend