My late wife Olympia was Goan and I've been to India many times. I love the food there. We used to do our shopping in Southall, where you can find cheap but wonderful fruit like mangoes, vegetables and spices. I didn't do much of the cooking, as Olympia did a lot - I was the under-chef and did some of the chopping.

Television is just one more facet of that considerable segment of our society that never had any standard but the soft buck.

Raymond Chandler

Those who are unhappy have no need for anything in this world but people capable of giving them their attention.

Simone Weil

The careful application of terror is also a form of communication.

Source Unknown

For there is not a single human being, not even the primitive Negro, not even the idiot, who is so conveniently simple that his being can be explained as the sum of two or three principal elements; and to explain so complex a man as Harry by the artless division into wolf and man is a hopelessly childish attempt. Harry consists of a hundred or a thousand selves, not of two. His life oscillates, as everyone's does, not merely between two poles, such as the body and the spirit, the saint and the sinner, but between thousand and thousands.

Hermann Hesse

Acting has given me a way to channel my angst. I feel like an overweight, pimply faced kid a lot of the time - and finding a way to access that insecurity, and put it toward something creative is incredibly rewarding. I feel very lucky.

Ryan Reynolds

I'd lose my mind if I heard my kid call the nanny Mommy.

Toni Braxton

I've never really had a problem with the imagination level of an audience. They're always smarter and savvier than any studio exec will give them credit for.

James Van Der Beek

A dimple on the chin, the devil within.

Scottish Proverb

I think politicians get hamstrung by the nature of politics when the private sector can really do great things.

Henry Rollins

It is always right that a man should be able to render a reason for the faith that is within him.

Sydney Smith

While most of us know that we feel better after a good hearty laugh, science, in many cases, is yet to prove why.

Allen Klein

Yes, peace can and must be won, to save the world from the terrible destruction of World War III.

Paul Robeson