I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter.

Pavarotti is not vain, but conscious of being unique.

And here is the lesson I learned in the army. If you want to do a thing badly, you have to work at it as though you want to do it well.

I was irrevocably betrothed to laughter, the sound of which has always seemed to me the most civilised music in the world.

Playwrights are like men who have been dining for a month in an Indian restaurant. After eating curry night after night, they deny the existence of asparagus.

Robert Vavra is one of these artists, part magician, part alchemist, who is able to create a series of photographs in unforgettable compositions. Only visible are the dunes, the blinding fields of flowers and the vast sky, the epic intimacy of Robert Vavra's vision.

There is no question but that if Jesus Christ, or a great prophet from another religion, were to come back today, he would find it virtually impossible to convince anyone of his credentials despite the fact that the vast evangelical machine on American television is predicated on His imminent return among us sinners.