I have never met a man so ignorant that I couldn't learn something from him.

I sort of feel that climate change will be solved by science. I just feel instinctively that we will find a way of saving ourselves. But I am less confident that we won't destroy ourselves in other ways.

Richard Eyre

At home I've got a very puerile, juvenile sense of humour.

Thom Yorke

Work is the province of cattle.

Dorothy Parker

Life is far too important a thing ever to talk seriously about.

Oscar Wilde

I am continually fascinated at the difficulty intelligent people have in distinguishing what is controversial from what is merely offensive.

Nora Ephron

Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you... while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.

John Muir

People seldom improve when they have no other model, but themselves to copy after.

Oliver Goldsmith

No one ever asked what was my relationship with Bart Giamatti. We used to talk about baseball a lot as a player and a commissioner, just talk about the game, what could we do to help the game, where's the game going, he was pretty good.

Pete Rose

It may serve as a comfort to us, in all our calamities and afflictions, that he that loses anything and gets wisdom by it is a gainer by the loss.

Sir Roger L'Estrange

If our elaborate and dominating bodies are given us to be denied at every turn, if our nature is always wrong and wicked, how ineffectual we are - like fishes not meant to swim.

Cyril Connolly, The Unquiet Grav

All the contact I have had with politics has left me feeling as though I had been drinking out of spittoons

Ernest Hemingway

The older I get, the more I see that there really aren't huge zeniths of happiness or a huge abyss of darkness as much as there used to be. I tend to walk a middle ground.

Paula Cole