One cannot judge 'Lohengrin' from a first hearing and I certainly do not intend to hear it a second time.

How wonderful opera would be if there were no singers.

Wagner has lovely moments but awful quarters of an hour.

Be that fragnance which fades in breezes of cold air but always gives intense smell.

When the day to day life is suppressing you, how could you put your moral values and will power to the realm of life?

His [Morel's] nature was really like a sheet of paper that has been folded so often in every direction that it is impossible to straighten it out.

As my mother used to say: "Mimic a duck act calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like crazy underneath."

The basic dream of many Colombians is to have a secure nation, without exclusions, with equity, and without hatred.

I was an English major in college, and then I went to graduate school in English at the University of North Carolina for three years.

Like Marxism, Thatcherism is, in fact, riddled with contradictions. Mrs. Thatcher, on the other hand, is free of doubt; she is the label on the can of worms.

A skilled diplomat rarely generates extreme reactions.

When I go abroad I always sail from Boston because it is such a pleasant place to get away from.

The trouble with photographing beautiful women is that you never get into the dark room until after they've gone.