It is more interesting to be compared to someone famous, because it lets you gauge what perceptions people have about your appearance.

I'm an armchair kind of guy, especially when it's raining, which it always is and always will be.

The outfits come and go but there is a constant that I like about the catwalk model: the snotty expression.

If you want to be happy for a short time, get drunk happy for a long time, fall in love; happy forever, take up gardening.

My eyebrows could do with a trim.

Don Quixote's 'Delusions' is an excellent read - far better than my own forthcoming travel book, 'Walking Backwards Across Tuscany.'

I see my large nose, like half an avocado. I broke it falling downstairs when I was six, and it now resembles a large blob of play-dough.

An uninspiring canvas becomes a glamorous masterpiece when it is reattributed to a better-known artist.

The moon puts on an elegant show, different every time in shape, colour and nuance.

Reading the play at home, however fulfilling, can never be the vivacious experience that Shakespeare intended.

The real change that paintings undergo is in the perceptions of the viewer.

Don't be in a hurry to condemn because he doesn't do what you do or think as you think or as fast. There was a time when you didn't know what you know today.

The home of every soul is not among another's glory, but should be within another's soul.

wordslike mysterious mermaids come and live permanentlyin the soft sweepsand scars of my skin.

It is unpredictable for you to know which of the strangers you are about to meet that becomes your friend. Be polite to every stranger!

I’m going, ’ he said, and in the temple light, I caught his determination, and that strength he got from loving me. It made him brave.

Question: What do you get the man who has everything? Answer: a concious. That guy is so greedy.

Altogether beautiful in the power of its feeling. As beautiful as anything in Thoreau or Hemingway.

I think it's a very important function of art to challenge accepted reality, especially when that reality is created by powerful interest groups.

Being a grownup means assuming responsibility for yourself, for your children, and - here's the big curve - for your parents.

Love is what I give to the one I love.