Books delight us when prosperity smiles upon us; they comfort us inseparably when stormy fortune frowns on us.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion, unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

A library of wisdom, then, is more precious than all wealth, and all things that are desirable cannot be compared to it.

Books alone are liberal and free; they give to all who ask; they emancipate all who serve them faithfully.

Books appear to be the most immediate instruments of speculative delight.

All the glory of the world would be buried in oblivion unless God had provided mortals with the remedy of books.

It is not all books that are as dull as their readers.

The power of fiction is a great thing. But, after all, reality is just a little more important.

The food you eat can be either the safest & most powerful form of medicine or the slowest form of poison

There is more sophistication and less sense in New York than anywhere else on the globe.

I never wish to be easily defined.

I busked from the age of 13 until I was 18.

The people we've known the longest are often the people we know the least.

See, I've always seen Jacques Cousteau as a hero, mate. He's a legend - like my dad, just a legend. And so what he did for conservation in the '60s through the '70s was just phenomenal.

Once people take time to find out who I really am you'd be surprised

Tradition - one of those words conservative people use as a shortcut to thinking.