... I was merely a disinterested spectator at the Banquet of Life.

I find I always have to write something on a steamed mirror.

A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable.

Acting doesn't bring anything to a text. On the contrary, it detracts from it.

I hate champagne more than anything in the world next to Seven-Up.

It's amazing how right you can be about a person you don't know; it's only the people you do know who confuse you.

I always expect people to behave much better than I do. When they actually behave worse, I am frankly incredulous.

That's my answer to the question what is your strongest emotion, if you ever want to ask me: Curiosity, old bean. Curiosity every time.

What’s the use of remembering anything? If it was unpleasant it was unpleasant and if it was pleasant it’s over.

I’ve never wanted to meet anyone I’ve been introduced to. I want to meet all the other people.

The world is wide, wide, wide, and I am young, young, young, and we’re all going to live forever!

I won’t tell you what to believe, Eragon. It is far better to be taught to think critically and then be allowed to make your own decisions than to have someone else’s notions thrust upon you.

When you realize you want to spend the rest of your life with somebody you want the rest of your life to start as soon as possible.

If you were in paris your food might as well glitter.

Giving gifts to others is a fundamental activity, as old as humanity itself. Yet in the modern, complex world, the particulars of gift-giving can be extraordinarily challenging.

These cybercrime fighters are regarded as the superheroes. They're highly intelligent and have this alien-like, advanced-type knowledge within themselves. It's something that impressed me every day.

Hope is a light diet, but very stimulating.

If I never won a Grammy, I would be satisfied, if in fact I could help people. I don't say that because it sounds like something cool to say.

Ideas are easy. I've never met a single person who didn't think they had a world class idea. The hard part is making it a business.

Sport, at its best, at its most human, is able to inspire an innocence and joy that is unique to each of us.

With us, when you speak of ‘the river,’ though there be many, you mean always the same one, the great river, the shifting, unappeasable god of the country, feared and loved the Mississippi.