In every one of the Greeks' mythology tales, there is this: a man chasing a woman, or a woman chasing a man. There is never a meeting in the middle.

There is laughter, shrill calls. Everyone is flirting, saying in nudges and jokes and blushing what they would do in private.

I think Will Smith's character says it best in his opening speech when he says, "We long for love, we wish we had more time and we're afraid of death."

One way or another, all the poets of the thirties and forties reacted to Auden, either by rejecting him or trying to absorb him.

State control is important for the people who have always been excluded from the claims of social and economic development.

So to live is heaven; to make undying music in the world.

One thing about the business and investing world that I connect to very intimately is that there is little room to deny the harsh realities of your mistakes. A bad call can lose you many millions.

I never feel more alive than when I'm on stage. On film you feel chopped up, you can be acting from the neck up, or the hand, there is a lot of close up.

I have had a lot of really close friends and family who have been touched by suicide, and I would never want to make light of it.

There's the private persona and the public persona and the two shall never meet

In a police state, referencing one's rights is seen as an act of aggression.

Wine has been with civilized man from the beginning.