The desire to become a journalist came really because I very much like living abroad, and like to travel, and wanted to be paid for it.

The real test of good manners is to be able to put up with bad manners pleasantly.

Kahlil Gibran

Just that working with Clint again is like coming home.

Morgan Freeman

Have you noticed that life, with murders and catastrophes and fabulous inheritances, happens almost exclusively in newspapers?

Jean Anouilh

When taxidermy is done well it's an amazing piece of art.

Amanda Seyfried

It's a curious idea to reproduce when you don't even like life.

Michel Houellebecq

Our behavior toward each other is the strangest, most unpredictable, and most unaccountable of all the phenomena with which we are obliged to live. In all of nature, there is nothing so threatening to humanity as humanity itself.

Lewis Thomas

The most effective way to destroy people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history.

George Orwell

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

George Bernard Shaw

I would often find myself, at the age of 21, at midnight, running down a dark street on my own with 10 men chasing me. And the fact they had cameras in their hands made that legal.

Sienna Miller

But words came halting forth, wanting Invention's stay;

Sir Philip Sidney

Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

Voltaire

Her heart did whisper that he had done it for her.

Jane Austen