I refuse to be put in a cage that gleams golden for many, but bronze for me. I would much rather be a dove in the sky, flying out into the open, into the sky, into the beyond.

No matter how weird we all are, were still human.

Anybody can take offense in everything. You will just go crazy if you try to make everything politically correct every single second.

I felt this awful obligation to be charming or at least have something to say, and the pressure of having to be charming (or merely verbal) incapacitates me.

All my early school reports from the age of 5 were 'Daniel must learn not to distract others.'

It is a fatal fault to reason whilst observing, though so necessary beforehand and so useful afterwards.

Kissing babies and hugging fat girls.

Vanity, indeed, is the very antidote to conceit; for while the former makes us all nerve to the opinion of others, the latter is perfectly satisfied with its opinion of itself.

...it's not enough to fight for a better world; we also have to live lives worth fighting for.

There is no possible excuse for a guarded lie. Enthusiastic and impulsive people will sometimes falsify thoughtlessly, but equivocation is malice prepense.

People who don't make mistakes are no bloody good to you at all.

She ate so many clams that her stomach rose and fell with the tide.

We were told four years ago that 17 million people went to bed hungry each night. Well that was probably true. They were all on a diet.