I wanted to prove the sustaining power of music.

Religion is for people who fear hell, spirituality is for people who have been there.

Don’t you love the Oxford Dictionary? When I first read it, I thought it was a really really long poem about everything.

Tomorrow belongs to those who can hear it coming.

If I never wake again, I certainly will have lived while I was alive.

And these children that you spit on as they try to change their worlds are immune to your consultations. They're quite aware of what they're going through.

I don't know where I'm going from here, but I promise it won't be boring.

I suspect that dreams are an integral part of existence, with far more use for us than we've made of them...The fine line between the dream state and reality is at times, for me, quite grey.

The end comes when the infinites arrive.

I'm always amazed that people take what I say seriously. I don't even take what I am seriously.

Put on your red shoes, and dance the blues.

He suffered much, but he understood the mystery of pain: he knew that tears make all things shine.

I couldn't be a director because I couldn't put up with the actors. I don't have the patience. Why, I'd probably kill the actors. Not to mention some of the beautiful actresses.

In England, football is important for everybody.

For me, I tend to sit back sometimes and just count my blessings because of how long I've played.

Next to the coming to a good understanding with a new mistress, I love a quarrel with an old one.

I was an English major in college, took a ton of creative writing courses, and was a newspaper reporter for 10 years.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

I really love 'Dexter.' I'd like to be on 'Curb Your Enthusiasm' or 'Breaking Bad'.

Leaders are made, they are not born. They are made by hard effort, which is the price which all of us must pay to achieve any goal that is worthwhile.

To middle-class parents, the project team may have seemed unfit for children, but it was exactly what I needed.