Talent consists not in inventing shapes but in causing those that were invisible to emerge.

I am going to die, but that is of no importance.

Wine is the refined jewel that only a grown woman will prefer to the sparkling trinkets adored by little girls.

Some people just live out their whole lives with some sort of ache in their heart they never resolve.

I think, at a child's birth, if a mother could ask a fairy godmother to endow it with the most useful gift, that gift should be curiosity.

There is a great satisfaction in building good tools for other people to use.

When the Goths are at the gates, forming study groups and praying for deliverance is not effective defense.

Bridget Jones' Baby, at heart is about the gap between how you expect life to turn out and how it actually does.

Keep not money, but keep good people's company.

Nothing is so dangerous as being too modern; one is apt to grow old fashioned quite suddenly.

I wanted to create an album that spoke all the musical languages I loved.

When politicians complain about the media, it strikes me as resembling footballers complaining about the umpire.

Poetry is a finikin thing of air That lives uncertainly and not for long Yet radiantly beyond much lustier blurs.