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I was completely unprepared for the public spectacle my private life became, and didn't like it a bit.

Mr Earbrass was virtually asleep when several lines of verse passed through his mind and left it hopelessly awake. Here was the perfect epigraph for TUH: A horrid ?monster has been [something] delay'd By your/their indiff'rence in the dank brown shade Below the garden... His mind's eye sees them quoted on the bottom third of a right-hand page in a (possibly) olive-bound book he read at least five years ago. When he does find them, it will be a great nuisance if no clue is given to their authorship.

I also have a film coming up called Breaking Up, and my part in that was not written for a Latina, and my character is not particularly pretty or sexy or exotic.

Nothing that is really good and God-like dies.

A lie's true power cannot be accurately measured by the number of people who believe its deception when it is told, it must be measured by the number of people who will go out after hearing it trying to convince others of its truth.

If only I had grown up worshipping Julia Child. I was already grown up - thank you very much - when Julia Child's book was published. When I moved to New York in 1962, you had to own it.

Wouldn’t you rather play chess, Ma’am?....It’s less destructive of clothes.

We have got into Indian railways and are trying to get into the railway locomotive business in Europe and the United States.

I am very averse to bringing myself forward in print, but as my account will only appear as an appendage to a former production, and as it will be confined to such topics as have connection with my authorship alone, I can hardly accuse myself of a personal intrusion.

Respect your grief. For, if there is a wall within you that needs mending. It will mend it. --- Grief

I feel like we cheated... because you read about these other directors, just like, 'Damn! They paid dues for 10 years before they got to get behind the camera.' We cheated because technology was in the right place at the right time, and we were alive at the right age at the right time for us to take advantage of that.

Somewhere, deep within me, beyond the passion, beyond the beauty of the night, that little spark of Daily magic ignited in me again, began burning in a place that had gone dark and untended, that had yearned to be bright and warm. I felt it now, something old, something new, something complete. Perhaps it had been in there in me all along, the belief that there is a plan and a purpose, that God whispers into every life, some things that are beyond the scope of the mind, and can only be felt with the heart and the spirit. Those dreams, the dreams that are dreamed *for* us, not by us, are the truest of all.

Turkish cuisine is, to my mind, one of the most exciting and accomplished in the world.

Time travel used to be thought of as just science fiction, but Einstein's general theory of relativity allows for the possibility that we could warp space-time so much that you could go off in a rocket and return before you set out.

The conditions of conquest are always easy. We have but to toil awhile, endure awhile, believe always, and never turn back.

Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.

We had an exercise in speech class in school, impromptu speaking, that I was always real good at.

we tend to steer our lives in the direction of the lessons we need to learn

He was sounding the deeps of his nature, and of the parts of his nature that were deeper than he, going back into the womb of Time.

No one is a friend to his friend who does not love in return.