Joy is the feeling of one's powers increasing.

Out of the current confusion of ideals and and confounding of career hopes, a calm recognition may yet emerge that productive labor is the foundation of all prosperity.

When the point of education becomes the production of credentials rather than the cultivation of knowledge, it forfeits the motive recognized by Aristotle: "All human beings by nature desire to know.

The first draft of a book—even a long one—should take no more than three months, the length of a season.

It is not only a matter of not caring who knows - it is also a matter of knowing who cares.

Poetry can be the bridge, the crossover point in the mind between the physical and the spiritual. A place where the two can meet.

Traditional British desserts with lots of custard are my biggest weakness - I particularly love the puds at St. John restaurant in East London.

Oh, I've never been asked a silly question in my entire life.

You see, deep down beneath my superficial and shallow exterior, I'm really very superficial and shallow.

I am a big fan of music in terms of storytelling device.

It’s crazy to think North West can already read better than Kendall Jenner.

I find that when you see somebody in the tabloids all the time, you have no desire to see them in movies.

Every company that has an economist working for him has one employee too many.