I was grateful to be away from all that familiarity, to have a chance to do something anonymously.

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.

The ultimate foundation of spirituality is the recognition that there can't be such a thing as a purposeful life in a purposeless universe.

Words of “unconditional love” defines as mothers love, respect your parents

A rose is but a rose, it blooms because it blooms; it thinks not of itself, nor asks if it is seen.

The best and easiest lesson for me was to learn that writing is mostly hard work.

Some people give you that motivation to work harder simply to get the hell away from wherever they are.

Ahimsa must be placed before everything else while it is professed. Then alone it becomes irresistible.

It is no flattery to give a friend a due character; for commendation is as much the duty of a friend as reprehension.

We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognizes the true threats that we face.

How is it, Lord, that we are cowards in everything save in opposing thee?

Zidane is probably the best player there has been in the past 20 years ... France have recovered the best Zidane and they have progressively grown throughout this tournament.