Owning a dog is slightly less expensive than being addicted to crack.

You know what? We need a recession in this country, because that would finaly weed out al the subnormal, underdeveloped, stupefied, puerile people in this workforce.

The irony is that we are busy doing many things that don’t matter and we have no time for things that do. Shouldn’t we reverse it?

Never give up! With every step you take in your journey, you are forming your dreams.

No matter the age, a woman who is unloved is lost - unloved she might as well die.

There's a lot to do when you're a kid - spiders to catch, girls to poke in the eye - stuff to be getting on with.

On Economic Nobel Prize 2014: I see one of my daughters is on Skype with me from London and in fact it is actually quite moving for the whole family of course.

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

I do not dream of a gentle revolution. My passion runs to the violence of supersession, the ferocity of a life that renounces nothing.

Progress, of the best kind, is comparatively slow

Every day on Earth is another chance to get it right.

I think I'm smart unless I'm really, really in love and then I am ridiculously stupid.