Now, I'm simply working with people I want to work with. I just want to have good working experiences and let the dice fall where they may.

The two basic items necessary to sustain life are sunshine and coconut milk.

Somehow I think it was declared very early on that I was the - if not the black sheep of the family, not a very good student.

Depressed, anxious, sad, frightened? Yes. But I've never been bored.

Mrs. Robinson, you're trying to seduce me... aren't you?

This is your life. Now go make it the one you've always wanted.

I believe - though I may be wrong, because I'm no expert - that this war is about what most wars are about: hegemony, money, power and oil.

I don't like the fact that I have to get older so fast, but I like the fact that I'm aging so well.

You spend so much of your life basing yourself on what you think other people think of you. Then you realise that maybe one of the purposes of life is not to care.

There's a new medical crisis. Doctors are reporting that many men are having allergic reactions to latex condoms. They say they cause severe swelling. So what's the problem?

What makes divorce happen is that you can't be in the same space any more, for whatever reason - but the love stays. And that's the killer. That's where the vehemence and anger and rage comes from.

You wanted to believe that getting older, growing up, would change everything, transform you into the amazing person you were meant to be. But what if it didn't? What if you had to stay you forever?

I do not remember asking adults about anything, except as a last resort.

I always turn to the sports pages first, which records people's accomplishments. The front page has nothing but man's failures.

The secret of joy in work is contained in one word - excellence. To know how to do something well is to enjoy it.

In an era where digital or virtual is the default, the actual coming together into a physical space has to be an experience that you don't want to miss.

They can shout down the head of the physics department at Cal Tech.

Life operates by deserve. So, in leading people, learn to work with the people who deserve it, not the people who need it.

All our life is but a going out to the place of execution, to death.

You must throw away your bad habits to get good.

Nothing - I mean nothing - and no-one - I mean no-one - will stop me going through to the end, and trying to be ready for the challenge of 2007.