The fact is, I loved being English. I was very happy to be turned into an English schoolboy.

Every exit is an entry somewhere else.

Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art.

If you associate enough with older people who do enjoy their lives, who are not stored away in any golden ghettos, you will gain a sense of continuity and of the possibility for a full life.

Words are sacred. If you get the right ones in the right order you can nudge the world a little.

It's not the voting that's democracy; it's the counting.

A healthy attitude is contagious but don't wait to catch it from others. Be a carrier.

To be an artist at all is like living in Switzerland during a world war. To be an artist in Zurich, in 1917, implies a degree of self-absorption that would have glazed over the eyes of Narcissus.

If you carry your childhood with you, you never become older.

Give us this day our daily mask.

Atheism is a crutch for those who cannot bear the reality of God.

Frantic orthodoxy is never rooted in faith but in doubt. It is when we are unsure that we are doubly sure.

He sunk his head down, looking like a defeated giant out of some fairy tale.

Art is a house that tries to be haunted.

The Church is the Church only when it exists for others.

Whilst shame keeps its watch, virtue is not wholly extinguished in the heart; nor will moderation be utterly exiled from the minds of tyrants.

Tea does our fancy aid, Repress those vapours which the head invade And keeps that palace of the soul serene.

Finally, states have monopolized, or sought to monopolize, armed force.

There's this Tea Party wing, the Republican Party with the Chamber of commerce folks and all of those other people. They are not anti-immigration, by the way.

I've been very lucky being in New York. While there are many things that have impacted my life, I have been able to stay here and do my own work.

Honestly, I grew up in pretty modest circumstances. We were a middle-class family.