you can die of the wrong thought as quick as of a bullet.

The successful publishing house is the one that can guess ahead, not the one that imitates the past.

the higher the flame shoots the quicker it blacks out.

The only way I can endure the future is to ignore it.

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is.

Languages are the pedigree of nations.

I don't even want to think of myself as an actor because it's such an insecure place to go.

When I was 12, we went from Glasgow to Aberdeen on a school trip. It was called fresh air fortnight.

Obviously, anyone who has seen Mr. and Mrs. Smith knows that husband and wife married spies is something that I find particularly interesting.

Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.

I think humor is warmer, and wit is colder. Wit is judgment, whereas humor invites some sort of response.

Our animals don't do drugs. Instead, we move them almost daily in a tightly choreographed ballet from pasture spot to pasture spot.

My mother was very protective of her four boys.

Time travel is only a little less confusing than wives.