Don't be about just any life. Be about the life you want to be about.

The man who fails because he aims astray or because he does not aim at all is to be found everywhere.

When the fox preaches look to your geese.

Preparing for the worst is an activity I have taken up since I turned thirty-five and the worst actually began to happen.

I never lost my dreams in my 20s, and I know that sounds corny, but it's incredibly important to never let go of what you really want in your life.

I go to the movies whenever I get the chance, because the movie theater is like the woods. It's another place that's like a time machine.

It was a fun job but I'd never claim Busted was anything other than a pop band.

Inward is not a direction. Inward is a dimension.

Reading is a majority skill but a minority art. Yet nothing can replace the exact, complicated, subtle communion between absent author and entranced, present reader.

My father died when I was nine, but I came from a stable family environment, which I think does contribute to being well-behaved.

It is a proof of nobility of mind to despise injuries.