When you are making a success of something, it's not work. It's a way of life. You enjoy yourself because you are making your contribution to the world.

Forgiveness means letting go of the past.

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

Responsibilities are relative. My responsibility is to a character in a script, to a part I'm playing.

In my case I don't mind playing a character that irritates people or makes people question my sanity.

I like my coffee like I like my women. In a plastic cup.

To endow animals with human emotions has long been a scientific taboo. But if we do not, we risk missing something fundamental, about both animals and us.

The job of the school is to teach so well that family background is no longer an issue.

If God said, 'Rumi pay homage to everything that has helped you enter my arms,' there would not be one experience of my life, not one thought, not one feeling, nor any act, I would not bow to.

My generation will actually be the first generation that is tamer than the one that came before it, and it will probably be poorer; less fun and less money.

All efforts to render politics aesthetic culminate in one thing: war.