We're all far too afraid of being so arrogant to say "Either you can or you can't."

I put everything I can into the mulberry of my mind and hope that it is going to ferment and make a decent wine. How that process happens, I'm sorry to tell you I can't describe.

If you listen, you learn; if you talk, you don't.

As Beckett said, it's not enough to die, one has to be forgotten as well.

Each day, as you get older, there is a new perspective on life. It's a progression of some sort.

Society is constantly recalibrating, redefining what it considers to be moral and immoral.

Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.

I never had any ambition to be a star, or whatever it is called, and I'm still embarrassed at the word.

Pretending to be other people is my game and that to me is the essence of the whole business of acting.

The only concession you can make is to what you believe is right.

Nudes are the greatest to paint. Everything you can find in a landscape or a still life or anything else is there: darkness and light, character dimension, texture. I painted heads too, of course.

Facts get shares

I like to change. A new lamp, a piece of art, can transform a room.

To come under siege was the inevitable fate of power.

Buddhism is simply a methodology, a way of becoming one with the part of ourselves that is happy.

The author portrays himself in every line he writes and portrayal is always betrayal.

Out of moderation a pure happiness springs.

I never date anyone my cat doesn't like.

The manufacture of wax candles was another important branch of business in the nunnery.

Sports, music, movies - basically, fans of any form of entertainment don't do a resume analysis before picking their favorite.

Fatalism is the lazy man's way of accepting the inevitable.