Whenever nature leaves a hole in a person's mind she generally plasters it over with a thick coat of self-conceit.

Making movies was more a reaction to not being chosen for sports. Other kids were out there playing at whatever I was off making something blow up and filming it or making a mould of my sister's head using alginating plaster.

The 'Robben Island Bible' has arrived at the British Museum. It's a garish thing its cover plastered with pink and gold Hindu images designed to hide its contents. Within is the finest collection of words generated by human intelligence: the complete works of William Shakespeare.

Exposure makes you famous not just good work. Famous is being plastered everywhere.

Medicine is not only a science it is also an art. It does not consist of compounding pills and plasters it deals with the very processes of life which must be understood before they may be guided.

First there is the bare beauty of the logs themselves with their long lines and firm curves. Then there is the open charm felt of the structural features which are not hidden under plaster and ornament but are clearly revealed a charm felt in Japanese architecture.

I'm not someone who likes to have my picture taken let alone see it plastered all over the place.

It is well for the world that in most of us by the age of thirty the character has set like plaster and will never soften again.