Which just goes to show, I guess, that dinner parties are like everything else - not as fragile as we think they are.

The thing you learn with Potage Parmentier is that "simple" is not exactly the same as easy.

Sometimes, if you want to be happy, you've got to run away to Bath and marry a punk rocker.

It was 10:30 in the morning and I was already running behind. This is hardly unusual, but it pisses me off every single time.

I come here with no expectations, only to profess, now that I am at liberty to do so, that my heart is and always will be...yours.

Our government needs the church, because only those humble enough to admit they're sinners can bring democracy the tolerance it requires to survive

To make the material speak to man in the name of man, this is the aim and reality of art.

everyone tells you what's good for you. they don't want you to find your own answers. they want you to believe theirs.

The anxiety of falling in love could not find repose except in bed.

If a good actor wants a role, they'll do whatever it takes to get the part. Directors are the same. We do 'meetings', not auditions: that tells you a whole lot more about an actor, too.

As winter strips the leaves from around us, so that we may see the distant regions they formerly concealed, so old age takes away our enjoyments only to enlarge the prospect of the coming eternity.

There is no greater invitation to love than loving first.

The way management treats their associates is exactly how the associates will then treat the customers.

Thor and Loki are defined by each other.