I'm kind of old-school and love nothing more than sitting, opening a book, and reading it. But I also love listening to audio books.

I want to write songs that are so sad, the kind of sad where you take someone's little finger and break it in three places.

Love is a state that I would like to exist in continuously.

An artist's duty is rather to stay open-minded and in a state where he can receive information and inspiration. You always have to be ready for that little artistic Epiphany.

I can control the weather with my moods. I just can’t control my moods.

Kylie Minogue is the greatest thing that has happened to Australian music.

It's a wonderful life if you can find it.

He who seeks, finds, and who knocks, will be let in.

All of our days are numbered. We cannot afford to be idle. To act on a bad idea is better than to not act at all, because the worth of an idea never becomes apparent until you do it.

But if you're gonna dine with them cannibals Sooner or later, darling, you're gonna get eaten . . .

The artistic process seems to be mythologized quite a lot into something far greater than it actually is. It is just hard labor.

To fail is nothing, unless you continue to ignore Cosmic Ordering.

The gods, so says the old superstition, do not like to behold too happy mortals. It is certain, at least, that some human beings do not.

Eyes locked, they stared. She felt bleeding pain down to her soul.

Everybody thinks the Bushes are from Texas. I've been there twice.

You see a lot of good ideas or well-written scripts that are bad ideas.

But the nature of my main work in chemistry can be better represented by more than 280 English publications, of which roughly 200 concern the theory of chemical reactions and related subjects.

Like most creative people I don't fit well into boxes.

I have a weakness for tough guys who read." - Izzy Spellman

The fact is, my parents loved me, and I wanted to be worthy of their love. I wanted to make them proud.

Our goal isn't to close Wal-Mart down. It is to make it a better, more humane company toward its employees and the communities it is in.