Pamper a tomato, overfeed it, overwater it and you will get a Paris Hilton of a tomato.

Stories are invented as you go along...

We sleep, but the loom of life never stops, and the pattern which was weaving when the sun went down is weaving when it comes up in the morning.

My dad is a Jack Nicholson lookalike and a frustrated performer, my mother's into reading and poetry. I suppose the thing I owe them most is my confidence.

O precious is the pause between the winds that come and go, / And sweet the silence of the shores between the ebb and flow.

That was the way of this cold world, where men fished the sea and dug in the ground and died, whilst women brought forth short-lived children from beds of blood and pain.

There can be no proof that Blake's lyric is composed of the best words in the best order; only a conviction, accepted by our knowledge and judgment, that it is so.

As a kid, I played a lot of one-on-none.

One must from time to time attempt things that are beyond one's capacity.

I speak to people in the languagethey understand. First I have a dialogue, if that is not understood I speak inanother language. There is no remedy for this.

Anxiety in a man's heart weighs him down, but a good word makes him glad.