Who's to say? Life is not, as we are taught, a matter of seeking answers, but rather learning which are the questions we should ask.

We are who we are, be­cause of those we choose to love and be­cause of those who love us.

The dead leave their shadows, an echo of the space within which once they lived. They haunt us, never fading or growing older as we do. The loss we grieve is not just their futures but our own.

For when all else is done, on­ly words re­main. Words en­dure.

If pain is a pot of boiling water, humor can be the rising steam.

When asked whether or not we are Marxists, our position is the same as that of a physicist, when asked if he is a “Newtonian” or of a biologist when asked if he is a “Pasteurian.

In the darkest time, I have always believed, the light will shine.

Love is a better teacher than duty.

‎There's no way to cheat a sensualist like me, somebody who can die laughing for hours over the pattern of the carpet in a hotel lobby.

I believe that not much happens of any significance when we're in our comfort zone.

America needs strong borders and extreme vetting, NOW. Look what is happening all over Europe and, indeed, the world - a horrible mess!

I actually had a cockney accent before I went to drama school. It's softened up a bit.

My daughter's birth was like a rebirth for me.

For the record, I Iike Jay-Z. That's my opinion.