I would define, in brief, the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of Beauty.

It is not fair to ask of others what you are not willing to do yourself.

My government will be open. Anyone found guilty of corruption will be dealt with in accordance with the law. If you are corrupt you will have to hang your boots.

A great city is the place to escape the true drama of provincial life, and find solace in fantasy.

Could be worse . . . I could be Sting.

A book is a mirror: if an ape looks into it an apostle is hardly likely to look out.

One of the advantages of being disorderly is that one is constantly making exciting discoveries.

The lifestyle I`ve been living for the last 30 years, I could have been dead a thousand times.

Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so.

Boards don't hit back.

If the misery of the poor be caused not by the laws of nature, but by our institutions, great is our sin.

There is only one way... to get anybody to do anything. And that is by making the other person want to do it.

I love children, especially when they cry, for then someone takes them away.

An intellectual is a man who doesn't know how to park a bike.

Self-pity is our worst enemy and if we yield to it, we can never do anything wise in this world.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.

Unless someone like you cares a whole awful lot, nothing is going to get better. It's not.

Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.

Will and intellect are one and the same thing.

In feature films the director is God; in documentary films God is the director

All is disgust when a man leaves his own nature and does what is unfit.