The sun was up - stuck like half a tinned apricot on a sky awash with all the colours of a fading bruise. Down below the living dead were forming their complaining queues at bus stops.

Jack and Jill slept, wrapped in each other's arms, untroubled by any dream in their cocoon of freshly discovered wrinkly passion.

He was dazed, the soft thoughts sinking slowly in. A son. Even a daughter. His child. Immortality. A chance to make good. Pass on the hard lessons learned.

The French know the intrinsic value of holding on to the past, its pleasures, its promises, and its tender mercies.

I would rather get offended than defending myself, though if it isn’t my mistake. Just to see that beautiful smile on your face.

The struggle to learn to listen to and respect our own intuitive inner promptings is the greatest challenge of all.

The "human condition" is always to push forward for the better and economics is the study of that process.

I always have my best thoughts on the toilet.

I always feel like, when you go into an audition, your best chance at success is to be as comfortable as you can be. It's generally more helpful for me to just be confident and comfortable.

Working with any actor is like working with a monkey.

Anybody can change, but they have to want to change.

Chess is no whit inferior to the violin, and we have a large number of professional violinists

Abortion is not the lesser of two evils. It is a crime. It is to throw someone out in order to save another. That's what the Mafia does.