A good marriage is a contest of generosity.

Whatever you want in life, other people are going to want it too. Believe in yourself enough to accept the idea that you have an equal right to it.

One day you're the statue. One day you're the pigeon.

Follow what you are genuinely passionate about and let that guide you to your destination.

People assume you can't be shy and be on television. They're wrong.

Do something you really love in the most adventurous place you can and make sure it helps other people.

Don't let other people tell you who you are.

I have a liberal definition of news because I think news can be what excites people. I'm not very sanctimonious about what news is and isn't.

I'm always fascinated by the way memory diffuses fact.

Wake up curious, and determined to find an answer

I so believe in the fact that we are somehow born to love the truth

When you showed someone how you felt, it was fresh and honest. When you told someone how you felt, there might be nothing behind the words but habit or expectation.

Mind being the seat of the soul, and literature being the expression of the mind, literature, it follows, is the soul of an age, the surviving and immortal part of it.

When you get everything you wanted, I think maybe you do have to be a little grateful for the people who got you there.. whether or not they thought they were doing you any favors at the time.

The Labor Party is a party with no ideals, regulations or laws, and it is a party I will not be a part of.

To be young is the only religion.

Rock'n'roll is not red carpets and MySpace friends, rock'n'roll is dangerous and should piss people off

There are some people who might look better if you smacked them in the head with a baseball bat.

To live is to be among men, and to be among men is to struggle, a struggle not only with them but with oneself; with their passions, but also with one's own.

People's opinions of us will always change, but how we see ourselves will stay with us forever.

All men are afraid of eyelash curlers. They don't understand them, and they don't want to get near them. I sleep with one under my pillow, instead of a gun.