You can't always let people do their own thing.

The Normal is the good smile in a child's eyes- all right. It is also the dead stare in a million adults. It both sustains and kills- like a God. It is the Ordinary made beautiful; it is also the Average made leathal. The Normal is the indispensable, murderous God of Health.

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.

The best of Mozart's works cannot be even slightly rewritten without diminishment.

What the eye does not see, the heart does not grieve over, does it?

Passion, you see, can be destroyed by a doctor. It cannot be created.