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“I do not wish to die- There is such contingent beauty in life: The open window on summer mornings Looking out on gardens and green things growing, The shadowy cups of roses flowering to themselves- Images of time and eternity- Silence in the garden and felt along the walls.”
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“Once upon a time, when men and women hurtled through the air on metal wings, when they wore webbed feet and walked on the bottom of the sea, learning the speech of whales and the songs of the dolphins, when pearly-fleshed and jewelled apparitions of Texan herdsmen and houris shimmered in the dusk on Nicaraguan hillsides, when folk in Norway and Tasmania in dead of winter could dream of fresh strawberries, dates, guavas and passion fruits and find them spread next morning on their tables, there was a woman who was largely irrelevant, and therefore happy.”
Source : FaceBook post by A.S. Byatt from Aug 27, 2011 
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“Like most parents, I've been stumped by homework, the big questions, such as: 'What is the point of geography - the pilot always knows where we are going?'. Answer: 'If you didn't know any geography, people would think you were an American, and you wouldn't be able to put them right because you wouldn't know where they live.'”
Source : A.A. Gill (2010). “Paper View: The Best of The Sunday Times Television Columns”, p.127, Hachette UK
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“Facts are what pedantic, dull people have instead of opinions.”
Source : A.A. Gill (2007). “The Angry Island: Hunting the English”, p.11, Simon and Schuster
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“Find a need and fill it. Successful businesses are founded on the needs of people.”
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“The peoples of Islam will always be closer to us than, for example, France. (2nd April 1945)”
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“It is impossible to think of France except in terms of individuals.”
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“People in France are very intrusive when they recognize you. In New York, they are very polite, with quick words, so it's great.”
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“Oh, I was brought up in the north of France, and I had a very enjoyable childhood with my family working as entrepreneur.”
Source : "Chairman of LVMH, Bernard Arnault". "Talk Asia" with Lorraine Hahn, www.cnn.com. February 12, 2005.
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“I am and will remain a tax resident in France and in this regard I will, like all French people, fulfill my fiscal obligations.”
Source : "France's Richest Man Bernard Arnault Sues Liberation Over Headline" by Stuart Kemp, www.hollywoodreporter.com. September 11, 2012.
