Virginia Woolf's writing is no more than glamorous knitting. I believe she must have a pattern somewhere.

My personal hobbies are reading, listening to music, and silence.

I am patient with stupidity but not with those who are proud of it.

Winter is the time for comfort, for good food and warmth, for the touch of a friendly hand and for a talk beside the fire: it is the time for home.

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Vulgarity is, in reality, nothing but a modern, chic, pert descendant of the goddess Dullness.

Rhythm is one of the principal translators between dream and reality.

I am not eccentric. It's just that I am more alive than most people. I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Why not be oneself? That is the whole secret of a successful appearance. If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

If one is a greyhound, why try to look like a Pekingese?

The trouble with most Englishwomen is that they will dress as if they had been a mouse in a previous incarnation... they do not want to attract attention.

Saying you liked all music meant that you didn't love any.

To hold the courage to let another witness our tears, while refuting fears invitation to shield face, is to grant the most privileged of all loving intimacies to them.

A good ad should be like a good sermon: It must not only comfort the afflicted, it also must afflict the comfortable.

Global warming doesn't care what's in your bank account." -Sinead Starling

There is a place in the world for anyone in the world who says, "I'll take care of it."

We oft question and compare.... Is the journey so important or the getting there?

I believe that if doors don't open, make new doors. So I also have started producing quite a bit of things as well.

With a film, you have to pare down and take stuff out and squish it all down into a 110 page script.

Horror movies are always a solid dollar. But a movie about Groucho Marx is a gamble. These things just are. Doesn't matter who you are.

Every quarterback can throw a ball; every running back can run; every receiver is fast; but that mental toughness that you talk about translates into competitiveness.