The most important thing for a fighter pilot is to get his first victory without too much shock.

I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affection to be art.

Language fits over experience like a straight-jacket.

Four years of Jimmy Carter gave us two titanic Reagan landslides, peace and prosperity for eight blessed years - and even a third term for his feckless vice president, George H.W. Bush.

I wanted really to make it moment to moment, partly because I'm an actor and that's how I operate - actors are all about creating the moment.

Yorke's lyrics make me want to give up. I could never in my wildest dreams find something as beautiful as they find for a single song - let alone album after album.

I just want to thank God for everything he has done in my life.

What brands can do brilliantly is broker change in people's lives.

I always thought records were there to be broken.

One of the great dangers in political engagement is misplaced hope.

Has anyone ever won an argument with you? (Syd) Just Tee, and I was drunk and wounded at the time. (Joe)