There's video footage of my 10th birthday where I'm wearing, like, a little pink T-shirt. Then my dad comes in brandishing a copy of 'Eraserhead, ' going, 'Look what we've got for tonight!'

A philosopher once asked, "Are we human because we gaze at the stars, or do we gaze at them because we are human"?

The book is the book and it will always be there. It's a quiet ending. In the book it's a contemplative ending which I think you could certainly do that in a movie.

I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones.

I think when you really adore something and you've grown up with it you almost don't want to be part of it. I want to enjoy it as a fan and don't want to ruin the magic.

I've yet to meet a bitter teenager. Bitterness, jealousy and jadedness, I think, are the most unattractive qualities in a person, and unfortunately they do seem to come with age.

I think most of the time you can make something happen, and it's about not letting your imagination be limited by that.

Vengeance is the act of turning anger in on yourself. On the surface it may be directed at someone else, but it is a surefire recipe for arresting emotional recovery.

The crime which is done now is that war has made a tool and slave of science, and man's knowledge, painfully and laboriously compiled, is made the instrument of man's destruction.

What people regard as vanity—leaving great works, having children, acting in such a way as to prevent one's name from being forgotten—I regard as the highest expression of human dignity.

The financial disclosure statements, they don't give you the tax rate. They don't give you all the details that tax returns would.

If, in short, there is a community of computers living in my head, there had also better be somebody who is in charge; and, by God, it had better be me.

I don't find myself in moral turmoil. I'm not given to turmoil of any kind.

The military part of our information network - which we were accustomed to rely on for exact information - was the first part of the network to fall apart

The telephone is virtual reality in that you can meet with someone as if you are together, at least for the auditory sense.

Capoeira is a game, it is dance, it is fight, it is of war and it is of peace, it is of culture, of music, it is a portion of things.

My brokenness is a better bridge for people than my pretend wholeness ever was.

Salander was afraid of no-one and nothing. She realized that she lacked the necessary imagination - and that was evidence enough that there was something wrong with her brain.