A man who has bought a theory will fight a vigorous rearguard action against the facts.

Gratitude, like love, is never a dependable international emotion.

At last there is light at the end of the tunnel.

The plain truth is that the reporter's trade is for young men. Your feet, which do the legwork, are nine times more important than your head, which fits the facts into a coherent pattern.

Wall-to-wall masterpieces, after all, ought to be preferred to wall-to-wall decorative arts, even if the decorative arts are of the highest quality peppered and salted with dukes and tiaras.

Unless we have something worth dying for, Atretes, we've nothing worth living for.

A sad lesson that was mine to learn is that you can't lose what was never truly yours. Nor can you hold to things that simply do not wish to be held.

Vanity remains a feeble weaponThe delusional wearer of it considers herself strong

God only knew what ran underneath the fierce self-discipline and emotional control that had come with my upbringing. But the cracks were there, I knew it, and they frightened me.

Sometimes, I feel promoting a film is a more difficult task than acting!

The IMF is the International Mafia Federation. They're the loansharks of last resort.

You think you're being broken but you're really being broken open...and that's where the healing happens, in those broken places...if you'll allow it.

I shall mention in passing just one example of a gift from the Arabs that I for one am rather grateful for: coffee -- especially as it was originally banned in Europe as a 'Muslim drink.

Pain s the truth of art. Art is not a hobby or a pastime. It is the result of an internal battle royal, one between the quest for safety and the desire to matter.