The few really great-the major novelists ... are significant in terms of the human awareness they promote; awareness of the possibilities of life.

Literature is the supreme means by which you renew your sensuous and emotional life and learn a new awareness.

Poetry can communicate the actual quality of experience with a subtlety and precision unapproachable by any other means.

A good deal of Paradise Lost strikes one as being almost as mechanical as bricklaying.

When a woman smiles, then her dress should smile to

All the songs were written on guitar and then put into the computer, where I played around with different sounds I was hearing and what was available in the software.

Well, I'm backed by a very rich Jew. Yeah!! Yes, I am! His Name is Jesus. I'm backed by Him.

I don't think I'm identified as the anchorman, I think I'm identified as the impostor anchorman - there's a very clear line there ... I don't think it changes the way they respond.

We cannot tolerate comments of such hatred, such anti-Semitism, such intolerance. And these comments are all the more troubling given that we know of Iran's nuclear ambitions.

It is one of the most discouraging experiences I have ever had, not forgetting the time when I winked at the Queen Mother in London once.

Jeremy Corbyn had shown a catastrophic failure of leadership and must step down to make way for someone with the backbone to confront racism and anti-Semitism.

The body is not a permanent dwelling, but a sort of inn which is to be left behind when one perceives that one is a burden to the host.

I always wanted to perform. I remember being 5 years old and telling my parents to sit down as I was going to put on a play for them.

There's a lot of people who, a cigarette is about the only vacation they have.