Let every lady in Camlochlin swoon over a charming smile. She had won the love of a man who shared his most intimate smiles for her alone

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

A joyful person is one who deals daily with their problems, faithfully and obediently counting their trials as joy.

I'm always watching films. The Academy pretty much sends me every film that's ever been done. I enjoy watching them, especially with the people I know.

Vulnerability is huge. I love to see that in characters. It's something I feel like a lot of my comedic heroes have always done.

To be acutely conscious is a disease, a real, honest-to-goodness disease.

Everybody starts by imitating their heroes. For me it was Chuck Berry and Muddy Waters.

As an art form, opera is a rare and remarkable creation. For me, it expresses aspects of the human drama that cannot be expressed in any other way, or certainly not as beautifully.

So, Japan as a country has lost its vigor, it feels very much closed in for various reasons.

Do not expect to be acknowledged for what you are, much less for what you would be; since no one can well measure a great man but upon the bier.

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases.