The gentle art of gastronomy is a friendly one. It hurdles the language barrier, makes friends among civilized people, and warms the heart.

fiction is necessary to life - not only as books but as dreams, dreams that frame the world and give it meaning.

Train your new employee properly. Sounds so obvious, and yet it often doesn’t happen.

I am sculptor. I am clay.What shall I make of myself today.

Writing, for me, makes the world shiver and flame with meaning.

Oddly, with discipline, structure, and order, you will find freedom, anything is possible. Without it, locating your saddle may take all morning.

Less base the fear of death than fear of life.

I may be the prat in the hat, that's cool, but I drive an Aston Martin DB5.

A big part of the Motown formula was, they took music and turned it into this sort of automotive assembly line. They were cranking out 10 songs a day in that studio, or more.

Which is why I felt I was truly blessed this year, with leads in two nice films, and also the luxury of being able to do a studio film and an independent afterwards was fantastic.

The nature of rumor is well known to all. It was your own poet who said: 'Rumor, an evil surpassing all evils in speed.'