I like people too much or not at all.

Please don’t expect me to always be good and kind and loving. There are times when I will be cold and thoughtless and hard to understand.

If I didn’t think, I’d be much happier.

If you expect nothing from anybody, you’re never disappointed.

I ride earth's burning carousel. Day in, day out.

What horrifies me most is the idea of being useless: well-educated, brilliantly promising, and fading out into an indifferent middle age.

Go out and do something. It isn’t your room that’s a prison, it’s yourself.

I desire the things that will destroy me in the end.

And by the way, everything in life is writable about if you have the outgoing guts to do it, and the imagination to improvise. The worst enemy to creativity is self-doubt.

If neurotic is wanting two mutually exclusive things at one and the same time, then I'm neurotic as hell.

Perhaps some day I'll crawl back home, beaten, defeated. But not as long as I can make stories out of my heartbreak, beauty out of sorrow.

It is destiny which takes you to people who have the answers to your questions.

Out of the frying pan and into the fire.

The blowback against a bailout of Lehman would have been fierce. It is often forgotten, but the prevailing wisdom the day after Lehman fell was that its collapse was a good thing.

Freedom breeds freedom. Nothing else does.

Unperformed experiments have no results.

Holding out for a hero 'til the end of the night!

Absolute atheism starts in an act of faith in reverse gear and is a full-blown religious commitment.

There’s no way to succeed in business without the highest ethical standards.

I can't do most things, if I'm honest, but cooking I definitely can't do.

It's not that I don't trust you, Dunstable, it's simply that I don't trust you.