My worst quality is impatience.

Its unfortunate and I really wish I wouldn't have to say this, but I really like human beings who have suffered. They're kinder.

Being disabled should not mean being disqualified from having access to every aspect of life.

I think books are like people, in the sense that they'll turn up in your life when you most need them.

I hate the way market forces try to separate us out in to the appropriate demographic - basically in order to sell us things. We need to find stories that we can enjoy together, not separately.

Any problem, big or small, within a family, always seems to start with bad communication. Someone isn't listening.

I was brought up by very witty people who were dealing with quite difficult things: disease and death... I was brought up by people who tended to giggle at funerals.

Maybe I don't take myself so seriously any more. And I don't care how I'm judged. I'm past all that.

You can't imagine what satisfaction can be gotten from throwing a pie into someone's face.

When husbands and fathers leave, their wives and daughters tend to value themselves less as a result.

During an election, it's like they're doing my job: they're going around banging the drum for their party and selling their movie. You know, it's the same thing.

Everything you need will come to you at the perfect time.

It was no use to tell a person to forget. No matter how hard you tried to put it out of your mind, the hurt would still be there, festering under the forgetfulness, sending poison through your veins.

Riley asked himself why he had ever considered space travel romantic. “Because you are a romantic, ” his pedia said.

Management's job is to convey leadership's message in a compelling and inspiring way. Not just in meetings, but also by example.

One thing is certain. I am not afraid to act as my conscience dictates, no matter what the world may think.

As lovely as people are to me about my performance, I'm still a huge critic. I like very little of what I ever do.

Some reviewed 'The Master' on their knees, and while I respected its distinctive discordancy - can a movie be at once feverish and glacial? - I was unmoved.

I am an inventor of music.

Certainly we're not satisfied with just winning games. We've been playing some pretty good hockey, but we think we can play much better.

I'd found that what I wrote and put out on records somehow was not fitting into how I perform on stage.