My advice to anyone adapting a novel is that once they've read it and learnt to understand it, then they must throw it away and never look at it again!

I'm easy to work with, not a pushover, but I respond to criticism and find it inspiring.

And roast beef and Yorkshire pudding is my personal signature dish.

No collection of people who are all waiting for the same thing are capable of holding a natural conversation. Even if the thing they are waiting for is only a taxi.

You didn't wake up, your dreams just changed gear.

The Germans are a cruel race. Their operas last for six hours and they have no word for fluffy.

The appropriation of radical thinking by lazy, self-obsessed hippies is a public relations disaster that could cost the earth.

People who get through life dependent on other people's possessions are always the first to lecture you on how little possessions count.

We've all got to look at ourselves, start with yourself, that's all you can do. I believe that we can act responsibly as a group, it's just that there are vested interests telling us not to bother.

Leaders should never, ever try to look cool - that's for dictators

If only the strength of the love that people feel when it is reciprocated could be as intense and obsessive as the love we feel when it is not; then marriages would be truly made in heaven.

I’ve heard it said that a thousand mile journey to success begins with the first step. Anyone feel like taking a walk with me today?

A simple act of kindness could be the source of great happiness.

Some people in our life are like a lighthouse, They guide us to safety as we navigate the coast

Life for delays and doubts no time does give, None ever yet made haste enough to live.

Time perfects all living beings as well as kills them; it alone is awake when all others are asleep. Time is insurmountable.

Lightness of movement is the cardinal demand one has to make on a dancer.

What we've seen from Donald Trump has been so negative that nobody wants to be associated with that.

I understand culture. I am the nucleus.

I learned quickly, as I tell my graduate students now, there are no answers in the back of the book when the equipment doesn't work or the measurements look strange.

Writers must constantly ask: what I am trying to say? Surprisingly often, they don't know.