Nature is fun to study, but style is everything.

Praxiteles borrowed the better elements of a hundred imperfect models in order to create a masterpiece.

When one does something, one must go back to the ancients.

That time when past begins to look longer than the future

When a man is ill nothing is so important to him as his own illness.

To ask me to verify my life by giving you my statistics is like using science to validate sorcery. It robs the world of its magic and makes milestones out of us all.

The duty of a toastmaster is to be so dull that the succeeding speakers will appear brilliant by contrast.

I don't mind playing older characters. I find it interesting. There are parts I couldn't have got when I was 30 years old. So, it continues to interest me in the same way that it always did.

It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to become political.

Human beings are much bigger than just making money.

I can’t on my own change the regime in South Africa or teach the Palestinians to learn to live with the Israelies, but I can start with me.

To reason about love is to lose reason.

The nature of the mind is completely incredible.