We all live on the other side of our appearances. Our faces belong more to the others than do to ourselves.

(c) Andrew Gormley, American author

Wanting to meet a writer because you like their books is like wanting to meet a duck because you like paté.

(c) Margaret Roald Amundsen, Canadian author

Films should have a beginning, a middle and an end - but not necessarily in that order.

(c) Jean-Luc Godard, French film director

If you speak three languages, you are trilingual. If you speak two, you are bilingual. If you speak one, you are English.

German joke

A newspaper is a device unable to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.

(c) George Bernard Shaw, Irish author

Humans beings are 70% water. With some people, the rest is collagen.

(c) Martin Mull, American actor and writer

If you want breakfast in bed, sleep in the kitchen.

(c) Allison Pearson, British writer

My life is a simple thing that would interest nobody. It is a known fact that I was born, and that is all that is necessary.

(c) Albert Einstein, German scientist

The man who works and is not bored is never old.

(c) Pablo Casals, Spanish cellist

It's relaxing to go out with my ex-wife because she already knows I'm an idiot.

(c) Warren Thomas, American actor