It was tempting to take refuge in feelings of British superiority, although I disliked myself for it and hoped it didn't show.

For the first few months I went round in a linguistic fog. Often I only realized what someone had said minutes or even days or weeks afterwards.

The American Club was for those who preferred to have dinner at six and brunch on a Sunday and avoid the stress of dealing with Greeks and their language.

It was my first dead body and I waited for the appropriate feelings. I didn't know what feelings to expect, which was worse than realising that I had none.

What troubled me most is that although I was an unwilling observer, I felt guilty myself as if something in what I witnessed touched a shameful and repressed desire.

I drank through the buzz of befuddlement into perfect clarity and out again into the blissful confusion of true intoxication.

Body and spirit, I surrendered whole, To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.

Because a time comes in every man's life when he decides what sort of man he's going to be: the kind who lets other people walk all over him, or not.

One of the most glorious messes in the world is the mess created in the living room on Christmas day. Don't clean it up too quickly.

The absolute value of love makes life worth while, and so makes Man's strange and difficult situation acceptable. Love cannot save life from death; but it can fulfill life's purpose.

Almost without exception alcoholics are tortured by loneliness.

Let's say [Donald] Trump wins. Is Congress going to let him build a wall on the Mexican border? I don't think so.

You can find more traditional Shakespeare than we do. But what we want to bring to these works is energy, passion, freshness.

Dorothy Hamill was my big idol as a kid. She'd won the Olympics in 1976. She was America's sweetheart with her personality, her talent, her haircut.

The soul's first adventure is the fight between two ideas: the wish to return to earth in a human form, and the desire to feel the freedom of having no form.

Power is like money. Some know how to get it; few know how to use it.