The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Love, built on beauty, soon as beauty, dies.

Ah, cariad, finally I have you to myself, with a bed behind me, and what do I do?

Today, the concept of business is to make money. Making money is the name of the business.

The essential act of war is destruction, not necessarily of human lives, but of the products of human labor.

There are lots of ways to communicate what we know, but few ways to communicate what we feel. Music is one way to communicate emotions.

I apologize if there's a Parkinson's painter in the audience. I assume you do your best work in the morning. Probably gets abstract by noon.

Entrepreneurship is not a job, nor even a calling - but a hunger.

Any simple but delicious dish that celebrates the season and locality is what I want to be known for.

Prayer is the arena where our faith meets God's abilities.

A great state is a well-blended mash of something of all the people and all of none of the people. The liquor of statecraft is distilled from the mash you got.