It’s only with great vulgarity that you can achieve real refinement, only out of bawdry that you can get tenderness.

The richest love is that which submits to the arbitration of time.

A woman's best love letters are always written to the man she is betraying.

Prohibitions create the desire they were intended to cure.

Music is only love looking for words.

Travel can be one of the most rewarding forms of introspection.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

To write a poem is like trying to catch a lizard without its tail falling off.

It is not love that is blind, but jealousy.

Journeys, like artists, are born and not made. A thousand differing circumstances contribute to them, few of them willed or determined by the will-whatever we may think.

Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

I have a sure knowledge that Thanks are the highest form of thought, and that true gratitude brings unbounded happiness doubled by miracles.

An army of stags led by a lion would be better than an army of lions led by a stag.

Muddle is the extra unknown personality in any committee.

I am very proud of my role in 'Singularity.' It pushed me into the territory of period romance. It was a very emotional and challenging role.

Pure draughtsmen are philosophers and dialecticians. Colourists are epic poets.

Let's all pretend to be someone else, and then perhaps we'll find out who we are.

At some point you may get fired, but don't worry you will learn from it

Each successive Labour Government has been the most rapacious, doctrinaire and unpatriotic conspiracy to be seen this side of the Iron Curtain.

Nothing matches the holiness and fascination of accurate and intricate detail.

Never, ever invest money that you will need prior to three to five years - minimum.