“In cities like Athens, poor houses lined narrow and tortuous streets in spite of luxurious public buildings.”
“I've been slagged off completely by the art world.”
“I think that I shall never see a poem lovely as a tree.”
“If you don't love what you do, you won't do it with much conviction or passion.”
“I have funny bones. If there's ever any kind of tension, I'll always be the one to try and be funny to loosen things up.”
“I learned a lot from not having success, and realizing when you do have success, how hard it is to maintain it, and what you have to do to maintain it.”
“If you've got a talent, protect it.”
“American science is much more organized, much more hierarchical than British science has been.”
“A lot of leading countries in the world, including the United States and Russia, have to take their responsibilities much more seriously to ensure we are back on the road to peace and stability.”
“I find the fact that billionaires are quoted as if the fact that they are billionaires gives them some kind of wisdom is outrageous.”
“I think that people that are not sensitive, who seem to bang through life, do survive, but I don't think they get the really soaring feelings that people who are more artistically bent can get.”
“One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.”
