It is hard news that catches readers. Features hold them.

News is what somebody somewhere wants to suppress; all the rest is advertising.

Journalism - a profession whose business it is to explain to others what it personally does not understand.

When I want a peerage, I shall buy one like an honest man.

Never lose your sense of the superficial.

Everyone is trying to impress everyone else, trying to make themselves out to be smarter or more confident than they actually are.

To do exactly as your neighbors do is the only sensible rule.

So there are cakes and pillows and colors galore, but underneath this more obvious patchwork quilt are places like a quiet room where you can go and hold someone's hand and not have to say anything.

My photography has really always been about what I feel I'm getting out of it. What people on the outside get doesn't concern me.

Everything foreign is respected, partly because it comes from afar, partly because it is ready made and perfect.

People who relate what they believe to be new and startling information like to have such information received with exclamations of astonishment and admiration.

Trying to be funny is one of the hardest things on the planet. I think that's tough for everyone. If you're just naturally funny it's a hell of a lot easier.

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

I think new writers everywhere need opportunities to get published.

I think it's so important as an actor that you hang on to your own inner compass, because so many people want to guide you - 'This is what you should you be doing'. But I want to do different things.