He was a self-made man who owed his lack of success to nobody.

I want to keep my dreams, even bad ones, because without them, I might have nothing all night long.

where are the snowdens of yesteryear?

When I grow up I want to be a little boy.

Every writer I know has trouble writing.

The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.

[They] agreed that it was neither possible nor necessary to educate people who never questioned anything.

Peace on earth would mean the end of civilization as we know it.

You know, that might be the answer - to act boastfully about something we ought to be ashamed of. That's a trick that never seems to fail.

But how can one be warm alone?

The Texan turned out to be good-natured, generous and likable. In three days no one could stand him.

A true opium of the people is a belief in nothingness after death - the huge solace of thinking that for our betrayals, greed, cowardice, murders we are not going to be judged.

Many of the most profound discoveries were reported to have come through intuition rather than sequential analysis processed by linguistic understanding.

The people who believe that their soul is being crushed by playing a particular role need to take a vacation or check into the looney bin for awhile.

The right to rebellion is the right to seek a higher rule, and not to wander in mere lawlessness.

Forty freaked me out. I didn't see it coming. My life was in a state of chaos - I was moving jobs and moving house - and it just hit me like a ton of bricks.

The problem with the designated driver programme, it's not a desirable job. But if you ever get sucked into doing it, have fun with it. At then end of the night drop them off at the wrong house.

For love to last, you had to have illusions or have no illusions at all. But you had to stick to one or the other. It was the switching back and forth that endangered things.

On with dance, let joy be unconfined, is my motto; whether there's any dance to dance or any joy to unconfined.

Noah Baumbach writing is really wonderful. I think the way he plays out each character with a unique voice is really impressive, and rhythmically his dialogue works.

My biggest concern is security and keeping Londoners safe.