The most unbearable thing about many successful people is not - as we flatteringly think - how lazy they are, but how hard they work.

Being content is perhaps no less easy than playing the violin well: and requires no less practice.

Gaffe-focused journalism: revenge of intelligent people who know true evils are out there but lack the access/time to get to them.

We are all more intelligent than we are capable, and awareness of the insanity of love has never saved anyone from the disease.

We used to build temples, and museums are about as close as secular society dares to go in facing up to the idea that a good building can change your life (and a bad one ruin it).

The moment we cry in a film is not when things are sad but when they turn out to be more beautiful than we expected them to be.

We keep a special place in our hearts for people who refuse to be impressed by us.