I'm a nostalgic person and I really like rehashing and digging around the mental trunks.

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.

Don't care for her tongue, do you? How strange. I find it one of my favorite parts.Bones to Gregor

Whether I'm being influenced by new music that I'm listening to, books I've read, my friends, or my faith, I'm learning all the time.

You can't say history teaches us this or that; it gives us more questions than answers, and many answers to every question.

I couldn't survive just doing independent movies. And I'd rather do modelling than movies or TV I didn't like.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

I think most people know the concept of difficult family situations. So I try to just ground a very big concept in something we can all relate to on some level.

Ah Franion, treason is loved of many, but the Traitor hated of all: unjust offences may for a time escape without danger, but never without revenge.

What do you think?" I whisper to Peeta. "About the fire?" "I'll rip off your cape if you'll rip off mine," he says through gritted teeth.

Christina,'i say,'The factionless have all the guns.

We've got a wonderful economic formula in this country.