The worst thing that can happen to us is that our wings melt and we fall into the sea.

Nobody actually ever does this—escaping through a window.

The foolishness of chasing the moon ached my heart. I was stuck between the moon and the shore and surrounded by an empty sea.

We speed through the streets past modern buildings and ancient architecture. Gazing through the taxi window Rome becomes a wet painting someone has wiped a hand across.

Hope distracts you from pain - it's pain with red lipstick on to seduce you.

Trees were made of vibrant green leaves sitting on the shoulders of shy green leaves too embarrassed to show themselves.

It's a fine thing to be clever, but too much cleverness usually produces the same result as ignorance.-Lady Berwick

We don't look at teachers as scholars the way they do in Europe. In Spain you're called a professor if you're a high school teacher, and they pay teachers - they pay teachers in Europe.

I love what Joe Eszterhas written about Bill Clinton. It's hilarious, Clinton as a rock star, which is the way we should remember him.

And I not only inherited an aversion to the nine-to-five routine, but the sense from my parents that being bored and boring is the worst thing that you can be.

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.

Henry Miller wrote novels, but he calls his protagonist Henry, often Henry Miller, and his books are in this gray area between memoir and novel.

I wanted people to believe that there could still be this little undiscovered piece of the world that survives still on Skull Island.

I consider myself a genius because, when you talk about anything and everything, you a genius to me. It's just about makin' it fire on top o' more fire.

I can't see any advantage to fame. I'm happy with the life I have now. I've got the same two friends I've had since I was 12, and I can't see that changing.

Why should men love the Church? Why should they love her laws? She tells them of Life and Death, and of all that they would forget.