There's nothing better than not knowing what's going to happen until you put the pieces together.

There's real potency in metal. Metal fans love metal as if it's a nation they would fight for. It's not diluted by pop culture.

Life is problems. Living is solving problems.

Instead of just looking back, whiplash-style, I can assume there's something else coming. Time just folds over itself, like origami.

I'm a huge fan of Cabernet and Bordeaux, and am passionate about Pinot Noir and Burgundies.

There is no idea so brilliant or original that a sufficiently-untalented writer can't screw it up.

A hero is someone who simply got too frightened to use his good sense and run away, then somehow lived through it all.

But for the most part, love is a recognition, an opportunity to say, 'There is something about you I cherish.

I never really lived outside of the city growing up, but I'm always looking in between the lines of the city, and I magnetize over to the green spots.

I didn't really get London until I read Dickens. Then I was charmed to death by it.

Often I'll try things that just won't happen the way I'd like them to, so hearing that they're not working saves me some wear and tear the next time around.

It is necessary ... to yield to the storm, purchase a peace, and wait patiently for better times.

It's a lie to sell a diet plan that includes fast and processed foods, then implement a points system. A big. fat. lie.

The notion that life could be any different - that it could be better - becomes inconceivable. You forget how good it was to be normal. Worst of all, you come to believe that you prefer it this way.

I keep to this routine every day without variation. The repetition itself becomes the important thing; it's a form of mesmerism. I mesmerize myself to reach a deeper state of mind.

He was as honest as any criminal can hope to be.

No people in the history of the world have ever been so misunderstood, so misjudged, and so cruelly maligned.

The greatest triumph of our educational method should always be this: to bring about the spontaneous progress of the child.

I learned how to scuba dive, which is something that I've always wanted to do.

I feel more comfortable when I'm lighter - I sleep better, I snore less, I have more endurance when I work out, my arms look better.

Anyone can memorize facts and figures. The real way to learn anything is to go out and experience it. Let your curiosity lead you.