Reinvent yourself as often as you'd like. There's no limit on the possible YOUS you can be.

Make friends on your way up since you might need them on your way down.

Liquor is not necessary either for health or for so-called gracious living . . .It is the cause of untold sorrow, suffering, and material loss, not to mention the spiritual implications of drinking.

We are the recorders and reporters of facts - not the judges of the behaviors we describe.

Schoenberg is too melodious for me, too sweet.

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

I realized that a lot of the great directors that I admire from [Ingmar] Bergman to [Fredrico] Fellini re always shooting, then going into the editing room, and shooting again.

Lovely sweetness is the noblest power of woman, and is far fitter to prevail by parley than by battle.

People in Liverpool don't move very far, you know.

Genius is not inspired. Inspiration is perspiration.

Jesus & his apostles & disciples were all artists