He dares to be a fool, and that is the first step in the direction of wisdom.

Life is like an onion: you peel off layer after layer and then you find there is nothing in it.

All men of action are dreamers.

Great art is an instant arrested in eternity.

We are all snobs of the Infinite, parvenus of the Eternal.

Let there be no mincing of comparisons in this assertion. Not Turner, not Monet, painted so directly blinding shafts of sunlight as has this Spaniard.

Scratch an artist and you surprise a child.

Lawyers earn a living by the sweat of browbeating others.

Lawyers earn their bread in the sweat of their browbeating.

Liszt's so-called piano music is nothing but Chopin and brandy.

The chaste woman who teases is worse than a streetwalker.

مخافة الرب رأس المعرفةأم 7:1

Maybe there's more we all could have done, but we just have to let the guilt remind us to do better next time.

I think of myself as a funny guy but nobody thinks I'm funnier than my daughters.

If I had time in a bottle, if words could make wishes come true, I'd save everyday for eternity passes. And then I would spend them with you.

People recognise me when I'm holiday on the beach.

But you could only remake your own future, not anyone else's, and for some people that just wasn't good enough.

Just so far as we are pleased at finding faults, are we displeased at finding perfection.

The flyscreen door slammed behind me. My feet dragged. I reached each arm into the jacket. Warm sleeves. Crumpled collar. Hands in pockets. Okay. I walked.

If you're doing a classic play, where if you do a Chekhov, you do the words as written. You can't do that with a novel; you have to do your version of the words as written.

My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite kind of person, in fact.