The heart of marriage is memories.
No one wants a masterpiece knocking around when your own book is looking for attention.
I always consider every place worth exploring once- just in case there's a thirty foot flaming sign divulging the secret of life, that no one has told me about.
Once you've been backstage at a theater, the theater is never the same for you. Once you've noticed the crack in the vase, the vase is never the same for. Once you've seen a friend do something appalling, the friendship is never the same. That does not mean you won't go to the theater, or keep the vase or the friend. You can choose.
You've got to try everything once, except those things you don't like, or that involve a lot of effort and getting up early.
Stay cool, and wait for opportunity.
Few pleasures are greater than knowing you can close your door, ignore the world and create your own.
Egypt is a large, complex, very important country.
The mask means to me: freshness of color, sumptuous decoration, wild unexpected gestures, very shrill expressions, exquisite turbulence.
I object to being told that I am saving daylight when my reason tells me that I am doing nothing of the kind. . . At the back of the Daylight Saving scheme I detect the bony, blue-fingered hand of Puritanism, eager to push people into bed earlier, and get them up earlier, to make them healthy, wealthy and wise in spite of themselves.
My craziest ambition is to take John Madden's job and salary.