I think that artists have a better chance at making great art if they know as much about every different area in the industry as they can.

To be a sports person... There is a never say die attitude you have to have to succeed. The first thing I say is "die..." If you beat me, I just give up.

The crazy thing about the entertainment industry now is that you can't do just one thing. If you're focusing in on just one thing you're pretty much doomed.

If the body is the register of the real, then reading with one's feet is real in a way reading with one's eyes alone is not.

My heart is an endless well of love and gratitude.

The only people who didn't like it [The Monkees] were the French, and they don't even like themselves, so what's the point?

A love that dies has never lived.

I travel backwards and forwards quite a lot. I live very near to the train station. I'm kind of playing at being an expatriate, I suppose.

...it occurred to me that the voracious ambition of humans is never sated by dreams coming true, because there is always the thought that everything might be done better and again.

Sometimes I make my life a living hell by writing complex stories with complex characters. But I love it.

My father warned me about men and booze but he never said anything about women and cocaine.

I have absolutely no doubt at all that we will find evidence of weapons of mass destruction programmes.

This self-love is the instrument of our preservation; it resembles the provision for the perpetuity of mankind: it is necessary, it is dear to us, it gives us pleasure, and we must conceal it.