What a creature of strange moods [Winston Churchill] is - always at the top of the wheel of confidence or at the bottom of an intense depression.

I suppose I will go on selling newspapers until at last will come the late night final.

Often undecided whether to desert a sinking ship for one that might not float, he would make up his mind to sit on the wharf for a day.

Make yourself master of one single subject and the time must come when your knowledge will be valuable.

On the rock bound coast of New Brunswick the waves break incessantly. Every now and then comes a particularly dangerous wave that breaks viciously into the rock. It is called 'The Rage.' That's me.

The British electors will not vote for a man who does not wear a hat.

Three outstanding qualities make for success: judgment, industry, health. And the greatest of these is judgment.

Buy Old Masters. They fetch a much better price than old mistresses.

Go out and speak for the inarticulate and the submerged.

Business is the most exciting game.

Let me say that the credit belongs to the boys in the back rooms. It isn't the man who sits in the limelight like me who should have the praise.

Fools have a habit of believing that everything written by a famous author is admirable. For my part I read only to please myself and like only what suits my taste.

You have a nicety of awareness of the difference between a blade's edge and its tip.

You don’t have to be a believer in a lot of superstition and nonsense - there’s a difference between thinking to oneself and thinking as a form of conversation, even if there are no answers.

The tree of knowledge of good and evil.

I adore doing classic adaptations, but I also feel their frustrations and their limitations.

It is easy, retrospectively, to endow one's youth with a false precocity or a false innocence; to tamper with the dates marking one's stature on the edge of the door.

Everything I did was practical. You have to strip things down and get to the practical stuff.

Throughout the life cycle we consciously and unconsciously edit the events of our life, trying to give them meaning.

I try not to become too regular an addict of any one subculture.

I didn't know what I was looking for, but I knew whatever it was that I was looking for was real.