I had to let myself imagine a calendar with no lines; when every single day is being predetermined six months in advance, there's no more fluidity to time.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

We can start all the organic farms we want, but we can't stop congress from declaring pizza sauce a vegetable.

The sum of a man isn't the things he's done, it is the world he leaves behind.

Transformation of the self are related to where you are, and identity Is dependent on others.

I'm not a stand up at all, it's such a fear of mine. My sister does it, and she's really great at it.

Cynicism such as one finds very frequently among the most highly educated young men and women of the West, results from the combination of comfort and powerlessness.

All my life men like you've sneered at me, and all my life I've been knocking men like you into the dust.

The farther the outward journey takes you, the deeper the inward journey must be.

If Roman Abramovich helped me out in training we would be bottom of the league and if I had to work in his world of big business, we would be bankrupt!

Boxing is an ego-driven sport. The idea is to not get too personal or emotional with it. You just know when it's over, it's over, and that's it.

It'll be okay." She didn't know if it would be okay or not. She somehow doubted it, but what else was there to say?