It's an actor's job to play all the human conditions - light, dark, and medium.
Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.
The interesting adults are always the school failures, the weird ones, the losers, the malcontents, this isn’t wishful thinking. It’s the rule.
You either get the point of Africa or you don't. What draws me back year after year is that it's like seeing the world with the lid off.
The truth and the facts aren't necessarily the same thing. Telling the truth is the object of all art; facts are what the unimaginative have instead of ideas.
A lobster bisque ought to be the crowning glory of the potager. And this one was excellent. Silky as a gigolo's compliment and fishy as a chancellor's promise.
Breakfast is everything. The beginning, the first thing. It is the mouthful that is the commitment to a new day, a continuing life.
If you would be thrilled by watching the galloping advance of a major glacier, you'd be ecstatic watching changes in publishing.
After I reached my teens I decided I didn't want to hang out with anyone. I couldn't handle the stupidity.
Courtship brings out the best. Marriage brings out the rest.
I think a lot of people feel that they are just not listened to, and that the politicians in Washington are just playing games with each other and forgetting about their constituents.