Quote

In my life, I've had estates in Russia, houses in Spain, in Norway, in the deep south of America.

They don't have a lot of crime in the countryside other than theft. But every once in a while, things turn ugly, and when they turn ugly, they turn very ugly.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

There are Mafia families that have bought magnificent houses on the North Shore, although not yet the great estates because they don't want that kind of high profile.

There are few sorrows, however poignant, in which a good income is of no avail.

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.

After World War II, the major estates really did collapse.

You're not going to have something set on a council estate that explores all elements of human existence, the variety of experience inherent in any community.

I see drawings and pictures in the poorest of huts and the dirtiest of corners.