Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.

The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.

We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.

It's a book that makes me laugh and think - it would be very hard to like someone who didn't enjoy Candide!

Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world rather than some other.

I have adapted the whole book [Candid] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight tweets per day .

Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.

In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched.

Also, everyone thinks they know Candide - you hear people described as 'Panglossian'. So if Candide appears on a poster, it feels familiar.

I always travel with my guitar. I take it myself - with me in my hand. I don't like to send it by cargo because it's dangerous. There is no way I would do that.

There is only one way under high heaven to get anybody to do anything. Did you ever stop to think of that? Yes, just one way. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

A real farmer. He spent his childhood in the wheat, and his marriage in the hay.

The only true resistance to this Government... [is] to cease to co-operate with it.

The woman who does not choose to love should cut the matter short at once, by holding out no hopes to her suitor.

Screwing business as usual fundamentally recognises that doing good is good for business.

Fine...a word that you said when someone asked how you were but didn't really care to know the truth.

I still can't believe I'm an Olympic athlete.

America is not the only one who should decide about the policies toward Iran.

You can,t make yourself happy by causing other peoples misery -Tyler Perry The Family That Preys