"You have never, I think, known real Grief — panic, melancholia, madness, night-sweats, we've all known for most of ou…"

"It has always been my temptation to put myself in other people's shoes: even into a horse's shoes as he strains befor…"

"It was reported that the fireworks were beginning and Diana, ever enthusiastic, led the procession to the roof. I was…"

"Did my mother know … Of course she did — and she didn't mind a bit. They had an incredibly happy marriage, but my fat…"

"I never really had any aspirations to be an actor when I was young. I wanted to play the piano in a bar, to be the ol…"

"If I do decide one day to stop acting, I just hate the idea of people going: 'Oh, did you ever do anything else besid…"

"I don't really know how to act, I kind of wanted to somehow make it real, and one of the ways I've always thought mak…"

"In the days of my early acquaintance with Henley, some fourteen or fifteen years ago, I could never look at him witho…"

"When men live in small communities, ... they cannot avoid personal participation in some public functions. So it was …"

"It is impossible to maintain that these attributes [caution and progress] have been constant in the two great English…"