I just feel energized when I am around young, talented people. There is something about these kids that's amazing. I learn as much from them as they do from me.

It's good to know that there's a fine line between an "outfit" and a "getup."

Success is being nothing but a quote.

Do my ears deceive me, or can I actually hear the sounds of worms turning? You say a turning worm makes no sound? But how about a chorus of turning worms?

Europe, in legend, has always been the home of subtle philosophical discussion; America was the land of grubby pragmatism.

It is possible to stand around with a cocktail in one's hand and talk with everyone, which means with no one.

We are now as I wished we could be then.

If you're going to care about the fall of the sparrow you can't pick and choose who's going to be the sparrow. It's everybody.

We were alive. I remember it that way. We were still alive, and we couldn't see how close we were to the end.

To embrace suffering culminates in greater empathy, the capacity to feel what it is like for the other to suffer, which is the ground for unsentimental compassion and love.

You can't generalise about an entire country, but I like the energy of British men.