The ordinary manner of spending their time, is the only way of judging of people's inclination and genius.

the most censorious are generally the least judicious; who, having nothing to recommend themselves, will be finding fault with others. No man envies the merit of another, that has any of his own.

There are lying looks, as well as lying words; dissembling smiles, deceiving signs, and even a lying silence.

Mrs Beaumont shrugged. ‘Dougie travelled light in life, ’ she said. ‘He knew it was people who were important.

He knows not his own strength who hath not met adversity.

We want Israel as a democratic and Jewish state. So you have to maintain a Jewish majority, and you want to do that by legal means, by democratic means.

I have a goal to do my own animated film, something all my own.

I started thinking that if post modernism is about people opening up all their skeletons, I'm going the other way. I don't want anyone knowing anything about me anymore.

A man armed with a rhyming dictionary is a dangerous man.

Pound's crazy. All poets are.... They have to be. You don't put a poet like Pound in the loony bin.

Better than nothing is not good enough for you!

In the evenings I studied chemistry at the University of Chicago, the weekends I helped in the family store.

When you have the paparazzi hiding in the bushes outside your home, the only thing you can control is how you respond publicly.