Cherry trees will blossom every year; But I'll disappear for good, One of these days.
Don't ever go on a diet. Just don't. Walk away. Diets are the spawn of Satan.
I have to write for everyone. What really fascinates me is how you make films or make stories that can genuinely be shared by different groups.
Sometimes I get to put on posh frocks and be Madam Glamour, the vendor of my wares. My lovely friend Kath, a stylist, puts me into things I'd never dream of. But my real life is very different. It's very, very home-based - an intense domestic life, that's the core of everything.
The trouble is it's very difficult to pin-point the most important thing because Aids affects everyone in different levels of society, differently and you have to respond to it differently.
I think my first bout of that was when I was doing me and My Girl, funnily enough. I really didn't change my clothes or answer the phone, but went into the theatre every night and was cheerful and sang the Lambeth Walk. She said: “The only thing I could do was write. I used to crawl from the bedroom to the computer and just sit and write, and then I was alright, because I was not present. “Sense and Sensibility really saved me from going under, I think, in a very nasty way.
I've never been on the cover of Empire. I'm very bitter. I've got an award but now I feel sad and cross.
It doesn't really matter what one writes into a constitution. The important thing is what the collective instinct eventually makes of it.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
I grew up in the time of Germany after the war.
All mental discipline and symmetrical growth are from activity of the mind under the yoke of the will or personal power.