The backward look behind the assuranceOf recorded history, the backward half-lookOver the shoulder, towards the primitive terror.

You cannot face it steadily, but this thing is sure, That time is no healer: the patient is no longer here.

With my eyes closed, I would touch a familiar book and draw its fragrance deep inside me. This was enough to make me happy.

Friends are like sugar. When you have them, you'll feel happiness. When you have too many of them, you will suffer.

I am a former sabre fencer and fenced as part of the Uzbek republic team.

I know you hear horror stories about child actors, but I think in my family when I did start acting it was never a big deal.

Everyone in our generation lives in a world where you're surrounded by all sorts of music all the time. People's tastes are made of combinations of genres.

Refrain from reckless and thoughtless actions. Be as calm and judicious as a mountain.

[Filming Payne] that was also the first time I worked with JoBeth Williams, which was also a case of not being the last time!

The great men of music close periods; they do not inaugurate them. The pioneer work, the finding of new paths, is left to smaller men.

I love living in London.

We can let our past [difficulties and failures] beat us or teach us [to be more knowledgeable, competent and realistic in the future]!