The unknown is always frightening.

Older women know who they are, and that makes them more beautiful than younger ones. I like to see a face with some character. I want to see lines. I want to see wrinkles.

Just because I never went to university doesn't mean you can't read, although I do feel a bit uneducated from time to time.

I think that reality TV is so bad. It is a tool by the media to not make people think.

My mum made a conscious decision not to teach me any Indian languages so I wouldn't talk with an accent.

I was always in trouble from an early age. I had a fraught relationship with my parents, who were very traditional. Doing plays at school was a joyous release.

I'm not an academic, but I've always loved poetry since I've been small.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.

We emphasize our differences by nationality, race and financially. [...] It's our common humanity that defines us.

People have souls, and we all accept that cities have souls, too. It's why the locations are so important.

Of course, things will go wrong. Move on! Don’t let the little snags affect the progress of your life.

I Only Speak in Blood. . .

I'm so in control of my life, you shouldn't dislike anything I do-because I'm not only in the best place I've ever been, but it keeps getting better and better.

One factor that has remained constant through all the twists and turns of the history of physical science is the decisive importance of the mathematical imagination.

I like being broken. It means I can have chocolate for breakfast.

The Left, in a general sense, is very much atomized. We live in highly atomized societies. People are pretty much alone; it's you and your iPad.

We're essentially continuing a system where profits are privatized and...losses socialized.

The birth and death of leaves is part of that greater cycle that moves among the stars.

She listened to him all night and he found her fascinating.

Time is a currency you can only spend once.