The human heart has a staggering capacity for love.

A parent has to be silent much of the time.

Certainly it is important to work hard for your children, but if the only legacy you can give them is money it is a poor legacy indeed.

The final discovery is the discovery of knowledge.

Change comes from confrontation. You have to be confronted or confront yourself.

I thought how strange it had never occurred to me before that I was only purely happy until I was nine years old.

Laugh and the world laughs with you weep and you weep alone.

Death doesn't frighten me now I can think peacefully of ending a long life.

Personally I don't think day traders are speculating, because traditional speculation requires some market knowledge. They are, instead, gambling, which doesn't.

I love the music business very much.

The ocean is like a checking account where everybody withdraws but nobody makes a deposit. This is what's happening because of overfishing.

I have a catch-phrase to describe my plot-generation technique -- 'What's the worst possible thing I can do to these people?'

Whenever people get to see you, it's a great thing. Once people see an image and see the character, they can get into the music a lot more.