Perhaps this is why one reads fiction to begin with - to live a more interesting reality than one's daily life.

Unlimited power in the hands of limited people always leads to cruelty.

I'm a laugh tart. I make no secret of that fact.

Firefighters are indispensable foot soldiers here at home.

If you hack the Vatican server, have you tampered in God's domain?

Who, except the poets, reads poetry?

If you want grown-ups to recycle, just tell their kids the importance of recycling, and they'll be all over it.

Drunken with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you will. But be drunken.

With writing, there are multiple drafts. On stage, there is one take. I do a lot of preparation for shows, so, for the most part, what you hear me say is pretty much what I wanted to get at.

It’s not whether children learn from television, it’s what children learn from television... because everything that children see on television is teaching them something.

I would prefer to use the word free. I think the Dior thing is so much freer. There was not so much free about Jil's way of working.