I do believe CDSs [credit default swaps] have been miscast, much as poor workmen tend to blame their tools.

The best part of being a writer is you get to tell people you’re a writer. That’s still considered cool.

I think long and hard about what it is I'm actually trying to do, and then I kind of have to narrow my focus into that. If I don't, I'm too all over the place.

For my birthday, I would ask for a ticket from my mother. Just buy me a ticket to said country and I'll just find my way through. And that's what I always did. I never changed too much of that.

I believe there are people out there that just have a warrior spirit, whether it's fighting or something, they've got to do it. It's hard to identify with me; it's just something I do.

The joy of the creative process, minute by minute, hour after hour, day by day, is the sublime path to true happiness.

All actors almost always try to steal some of their wardrobe.

Get into the habit of dealing with God about everything.

I may not have succeeded in halting the war, but I did secure the right of parliament to decide on war.

A hundred percent of marriages end in divorce, disappearance or death.

The Robert Mugabe school of economics provides a salutary warning about uncontrolled monetary expansion in generating hyper-inflation. The road to Harare is not as long as we might hope.