In Hollywood, lying is something that people do like breathing.

We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.

The right song can turn an emperor into a laughingstock, can bring down dynasties.

I realized the other day that about the only author I genuinely read for pure pleasure is one of the worst authors in the world, a guy called Harry Stephen Keeler, a long dead American mystery writer. He was probably the greatest bad writer America ever produced.

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

Bod quite liked crows. He thought they were funny and he liked the way they helped to keep the graveyard tidy.

And I would try and walk far enough away that people would not assume I was with him.