Passive perception promotes pessimism

Attention and focus are essential skills for writers in a noise-filled world.

I don't care that you are not a young twink. I like to think that I'm picking you at your peak.

The details surrounding both my marriage and subsequent filing for divorce are private, and I had hoped to keep them that way for the sake of my family.

Tourists don't know where they've been, travelers don't know where they're going.

The genius of our founders is that they designed a system of government that can be changed. And we should take heart, because we’ve changed this country before.

The man is either crazy or he is a poet.

In all highly civilised communities Pretence is prominent, and sooner or later invades the regions of Literature.

Don't lie if you don't have to.

I've been really lucky. I'll completely forget that I'm a celebrity. And then something will happen, and I'll go, 'Oh, right.'

We lift ourselves by our own thought; we climb upon our vision of ourselves.