All my wife has ever taken from the Mediterranean - from that whole vast intuitive culture - are four bottles of Chianti to make into lamps, and two china condiment donkeys labelled Sally and Peppy.

The Normal is the good smile in a child’s eyes - all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults.

Everything we feel is made of Time. All the beauties of life are shaped by it.

You never quite know what's going to strike your imagination, or something that won't going to leave you alone, not going to leave alone, and this was one for me.

I speak for all mediocrities in the world. I am their champion. I am their patron saint.

What use, after all, is man, if not to teach God His lessons?

My actual childhood, as opposed to my adolescence, was not spent in London.