All the girls who have photos of them at parties, like, "Woo!" - that's what someone's going to see of their grandma.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

I nurture very good intentions about you. May you die in peace.

Money is only a vehicle that provides you with options, and I say there's only one thing that money can't buy - poverty.

I know your cause is lost, but in the heart / Of all right causes is a cause that cannot lose.

Do not waste your time looking for an obstacle - maybe there is none.

My dad is a minister, and my mum is a worker with the less fortunate and the disabled. They're Nigerian natives. Their first language is Yoruba, and their second language is English.

I've just found the stories of the people I'm talking to much more interesting than my reactions to them.

[On climate change:] What if it's all a hoax and we've created a better world for nothing?

If everyone thinks you have a good idea, you´re too late

I have overlived the generation with which mutual labors & perils begat mutual confidence and influence.