It's very painful to be in debt. I'm the kind of person who would rather almost die than go into debt.

Truth is no rounder than a horse's eye.

A good river is nature's life work in song.

It was a good speech, but the reaction was due to the fact that politics are madness, and even if one does not know it, a country in electoral season experiences flares of lunacy like the great storms that sometimes march across the golden surface of the sun.

Not surprisingly, he began to sing, and because no one in the world could hear him, and he sang without inhibition, he sang well.

There's something about rushing water that I can watch for hours and feel as if I need to do nothing more. It's alive in a way that's greater than any description of it.

My father ran London Films. He made films like 'The Red Shoes,' 'The Third Man.' And he had had a long career in the film business, which was bifurcated with a career in intelligence. He had to deal with gangsters, and sometimes he would take me with him. Also, I went to school with their children.