Some truths are truths, no matter who says them.
Port is not for the very young, the vain and the active. It is the comfort of age and the companion of the scholar and the philosopher
The Roman Catholic Church has the unique power of keeping remote control over human souls which have once been part of her. G. K. Chesterton has compared this to the fisherman's line, which allows the fish the illusion of free play in the water and yet has him by the hook; in his own time the fisherman by a 'twitch upon the thread' draws the fish to land.
Words have basic inalienable meanings, departure from which is either conscious metaphor or inexcusable vulgarity.
We are American at puberty. We die French.
For in that city [New York] there is neurosis in the air which the inhabitants mistake for energy.
I can't bare you when you're not amusing.
A small artist is content with art; a great artist is content with nothing except everything.
Obama is like a chess player who is playing simultaneous chess and has opened his game with an unusual opening.
Showing your movie to an audience. . . it's like your kid doing a piano recital. 'Just let it not fail. Please.
And there are certain songs that are really timepieces and shouldn't be touched. But some of them are a celebration of good humour and sensibility and I think that's okay. I don't care about the past, I'm a musician with ambition.