I don't watch television, I think it destroys the art of talking about oneself.

You don't need a Harvard MBA to know that the bedroom and the boardroom are just two sides of the same ballgame.

You are who you are when nobody's watching.

As I say I don't want to kill myself, I just wouldn't mind dying.

Estate agents: like them or loathe them, you'd be mad not to loathe them.

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing there is.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Wine can be a better teacher than ink, and banter is often better than books

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge.

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness

Oh, I am fortune's fool!

If you're going to hold someone down you're going to have to hold on by the other end of the chain. You are confined by your own repression.

I am a visible person. I'm visible and I'm controversial. I don't mind if you crave the limelight - but make it work for you!

People can also change the timing of when they earn and receive their income in response to government policies.

White, black and yellow men - they all cry salt tears.

I have tried to remember throughout that poetry is made by flesh-and-blood human beings. It is a bloody art. It lives on a human scale and thrives when it is passed from hand to hand.

We believe that war is an inevitable consequence of the current global economic situation.

There are still things I want to do but they're not necessary for me to do. I'm not clinging to anything that I can't open my hands and let go.

for some reason Gale and Peeta do not coexist well in my thoughts.

I'm not a conventional leading man at all and have no wish to be.