The young need old men. They need men who are not ashamed of age, not pathetic imitations of themselves. ... Parents are the bones on which children sharpen their teeth.

What is education but a process by which a person begins to learn how to learn?

Because they have been in love they have survived everything that life could throw at them, even their own failures.

The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill.

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.

If history teaches us one thing, than that history teaches us nothing.

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