My father was a film-maker. He always said he wanted to go like Humphrey Jennings, the legendary director who stepped backwards over a cliff while framing a better shot.

Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.

The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.

You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.

I formally proposed. I'm a good Southern gentleman.

The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.

A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.

The reason that chefs become chefs is that they're not allowed into rooms with windows.

Science fiction is never about the future, in the same way history is rarely about the past: they're both parable formats for examining or commenting on the present.

Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.

Players aren't quite as mercenary as people make them out to be. Some of them are but some aren't.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

We can’t control everything that happens to us, but we can control how we respond to things we can’t control.

Magic is just potential for creation. It follows no rules and breaks them all

Can't we all just play nicely and leave the playground the way we found it, clean and safe?

Nothing lovelier can be found In woman, than to study household good, And good works in her husband to promote.

Storytelling is my currency. It's my only worth. The only thing of value I have in this life is my ability to tell a story, whether in print, orating, writing it down or having people acting it out.

My worst vice is also my best vice. It's my empathy and my love for people-it can wear me out. I rarely can turn a person in need down or because I love people, I love energy.

Experiment is the sole judge of the validity of any idea.

If your body is 90% water what have you got to drink water all the time for? Why can't you just have some crisps?

We're against animal fighting and killing animals for fur.... We want Americans to eat fewer animals