If Botticelli were alive today he'd be working for Vogue.
To be gentle, tolerant, wise and reasonable requires a goodly portion of toughness.
The truth is really an ambition which is beyond us.
I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.
I don't know why I have these dreams. I've never wanted to be Pope. In fact, I have a greater affinity to Martin Luther.
Critics search for ages for the wrong word, which, to give them credit, they eventually find.