Reading is weightlifting for the brain

Either you were the best of the best or you were nothing, and somehow that didn't seem right.

Life is head and shoulders above all other things we regard as precious in this world.

The only work for success is hard work.

The only thing that I am trying to do is to find stories that I like, stories that are meaningful and that can connect and question, since I am not 18 years old anymore.

Nature confuses the skeptics and reason confutes the dogmatists

With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.

Ever since I had that interview in which I said I was bisexual it seems twice as many people wave at me in the streets.

Each of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of all of us. And all of us must be committed to maintaining the reputation of each of us.

I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

Yes, I know that you feel you are not strong enough. That's what the enemy thinks, too. But we're gonna fool them.

Sending grown-ups up the wall is one of the things adolescence is all about. A few years ago it was done with rock 'n' roll music. Now at least they can do it quietly with a home computer.