There are many nations that have perfected a particular room. You know, you have the French drawing-room, the Austrian ball room, the German dining room, and I think the library is a room the English get right.

When you are desperate to get someone who isn't all that interested in you, you lay siege as hard as you can.

You are my whole existence and I will love you until my last breath.

If we don't respect the past, we'll find it harder to build a future.

You never know people, do you? You can work with 'em for twenty years; you don't know 'em at all.

Harsh reality is always better than false hope.

I'm seen as a chronicler of the class system, which I don't think is unfair.