Change isn't easy. Changing the way you live means changing the way you think, means changing what you believe about life. That's hard.

When we make our own misery we sometimes cling to it even when we want so bad to change, because misery is something we know. The misery is comfortable.

Life is my greatest enemy.

There is a romantic, often misguided, misconception among the British that life in France is akin to life in Paradise.

Consul - in American politics, a person who having failed to secure an office from the people is given one by the Administration on condition that he leave the country.

I dont really enjoy watching reality TV.

I wish i could press snowflakes in a book like flowers.

We need to be I think equally sensitive to the injurious power of certain kinds of speech acts but also to the subversive and possibly liberatory effects of certain kinds of play.

If you're shy, get the hell over it: You're slamming the door in your own face.

What I've noticed is that almost no one who was a big star in high school is also big star later in life. For us overlooked kids, it's so wonderfully fair.

A wise man is cured of ambition by ambition itself; his aim is so exalted that riches, office, fortune and favour cannot satisfy him.

You've got to listen but you've also got to lead.