The experience of humanism is that 'nothing human is alien to me'

I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.''Treated like what?'She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.

An Englishman, even if he is alone, forms an orderly queue of one.

Many times I've gone on tours with Paul Anka. He would have someone sitting behind him to keep people from even talking to him. You were almost in a little restricted area there.

I can't think of anything that excites a greater sense of childlike wonder than to be in a country where you are ignorant of almost everything.

He is not injured. He's not fit. He's not fit to play football, unfortunately. He played in a reserve game the other day and I could have run about more than he did. I can't pick him.

When people lack jobs, opportunity, and ownership of property they have little or no stake in their communities.

The future has no other reality than as present hope, and the past is no more than present memory.

The wonderful thing about films is how they can be understood by so many different people on so many different levels.

I think in a lot of ways, writing, when you're really in there, is like being an actress because you're in somebody else's head.

Inspiration is being motivated by a person or idea. Motivation is being inspired by an object. When people are inspired, they don't need motivation.