To be a judge you don't have to know about books, you have to be skilled at picking shrapnel out of your head.

I think handbags, not so much clothes anymore, but I think you can tell a fashion victim by their handbag.

Hundreds of political prisoners still suffer in Tibetan prisons. Freedom of speech is not allowed in any sense. It is illegal to possess a photo of the Dalai Lama.

I don't feel like I am 66 at all. I feel more like I am 35. But I have a bus pass so it must be true.

I've got lots of good friends. I could have affairs. I can read a book all night, put the cat on the end of the bed. I can pick up my passport and go to France. I don't have to ask anybody.

Sure, good things can go badly wrong. Nevertheless, there's always another day.

I've been given this blessing, which is my granddaughter. You're no longer just you. You suddenly fit into the chest of drawers of life.

I have a toy giraffe on my bed. I've got photographs over my desk as well as a mask of a giraffe in my kitchen. I am totally hooked.

You must swear never to go on the dole. Never be bored. Find something to do. And don't yawn.

I was once kissed on the lips by a giraffe, and I don't think I've ever got over it.

Death is nothing at all. I have only slipped away into the next room.

Doubt grew only in the fertile darkness of solitude

His life rushes onward in such torrential rhythm that...only angels and devils can catch the tempo of it.

As regards obstacles, the shortest distance between two points can be a curve.

God gives some more than others because some accept more than others.

I want to work with Justin Timberlake.

I often say fame is kind of like a drug or like sugar: when it's controlling you it doesn't feel good at all.

If I were white, I'd get less criticism.

I'm flatchested, I'm short, I'm brunette, I have droopy eyes, and so people have a hard time casting me as a 'beauty.'

Money can be translated into the beauty of living.

Great wealth is its own nationality.