I love stories, I love myths, I love fairytales, I love Kafka.

Every morning I wake up with a purpose and a smirk

You're using your headphones to drown out your mind

I care so much about making things that are useful for people to have and listen to, but I don't care so much that I won't do whatever the hell I want. It's just one of those things.

I'm the hero of this story, I don't need to be saved

The piano is not firewood -- yet.

So break me to small parts, let go in small doses, but spare some for spare parts.

I've got a perfect body, 'cause my eyelashes catch my sweat

Pick a star on the dark horizon and follow the light.

I'm much more drawn to fiction, to short stories, and to plays, than I am to diarists.

I don't really make records chronologically.

A person who is humble would never be abusive or selfish

It was a wonderful combination for a reporter, the exterior so comforting, the interior so driven.

Perhaps the Allies will engage in some trickery. A diversionary landing, perhaps as you yourself have suggested, my Fuhrer. But the real strike will come here. At Calais.

The British are just as keen to make money as the Americans but they prefer hypocrisy to a blatantly commercial attitude.

I think that whoever is the attorney general, you don't want them to be as a yes person for any particular constituency.

But Wordsworth is the poet I admire above all others.

If the inner life of our fashionable women were known, how few would deserve the title of lady!

There's a sense of urgency that the president does not possess, that there is a 9/11 in the making.

As you get older, you see how rapidly the years and decades fly by, so I would encourage anyone, no matter the age, to seize their life and be fully present.

There seldom is enmity between seasoned old politicians, who know as much as men can of human weakness and human strength.