Let's leave one alive so that it can be lonely.

That's what careless words do. They make people love you a little less.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

There's really no such thing as the 'voiceless'. There are only the deliberately silenced, or the preferably unheard.

Wars are never fought for altruistic reasons. They're usually fought for hegemony, for business. And then of course there's the business of war.

He folded his fear into a perfect rose. He held it out in the palm of his hand. She took it from him and put it in her hair.

Ammu said that human beings were creatures of habit, and it was amazing the kind of things one could get used to.

...a political struggle that does not have women at the heart of it, above it, below it, and within it is no struggle at all.

She viewed ethnic cleansing, famine and genocide as direct threats to her furniture.

Empathy may be the single most important quality that must be nurtured to give peace a fighting chance.

NGOs are dangerous. They do what the missionaries used to do in Colonial times. They are Trojan Horses. The worse the situation, the more the NGOs.

Some of us think with our heads, others with our hearts. Though neither is good or bad, it seems that one solves problems while the other adds to them.

Rachelle choked on a laugh. “You were always stronger.”“You, ” said Amélie, “were always foolish enough to think that mattered.

Vintage kisses, " Finlay said. "If only they could be bottled, you would have an elixir beyond price.

When you can't enter through the front door, kick in a window.

Experience is what you get while looking for something else.

And I will die, and you will die, and we all will die, and even the stars will fade out one after another in time.

If it's an excellent script, I enjoy it tremendously, the acting part of it.

One must become as humble as the dust before he can discover truth.

It's a pragmatist's business, comedy. Start off with good intentions and references to the Pompidou Centre and you end up with boiled sweets and a pantomime cow.

I have the best job in the entire history of broadcasting.