I said I'd stop for a year, which was inconceivable to me and everyone around me. It seemed like so long. But then, after that year, I looked up and I still hadn't gotten my land legs back at all.

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.

But a lonely man is an unnatural man, and soon comes to perplexity. From perplexity to fantasy. From fantasy to madness.

You are you, no one else is you, you are the right you, and the right you, is the you that you love.

Female friendship... I think you have friendships that come and go, and then there are ones that the girl becomes a part of your bones.

We must see what in the Israeli identity - in the Israeli - we can give to other people rather than speaking so often of taking, expanding territory.

Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.

No sadness is greater than in misery to rehearse memories of joy.

I'm of the belief that dating "potential" is almost always an exercise in frustration.

Architecture is an expression of values.

Lively, too. Talky as a jaybird. With something smart to say on every subject: better than the radio.

And humility in politics means accepting that one party doesn't have all the answers; recognising that working in partnership is progress not treachery.