They weren't lying. They firmly believed it all. Which doesn't change the facts.

Being sad with the right people is better than being happy with the wrong ones.

Two weeks. Everything you love, own, and cherish, can be gone, liquidated, and lost forever in two weeks. Give or take a day.

The conventionality of the English is something I find unattractive - the whole lack of joy in the physical.

I started playing the piano from the age of three and I started teaching myself; we always had a piano round the house.

And it was, it was not beating George Bush, believe it or not, the bottom line as far as I was concerned was introducing to the public who Gerry Ferraro was.

Would it not be strange if a universe without purpose accidentally created humans who are so obsessed with purpose?

We tend to treat our knowledge as personal property to be protected and defended. It is an ornament that allows us to rise in the pecking order. [...] We take what we know a little too seriously.

I love shorts in the colder climates, because you can wear them with chunky sweaters and jackets. It's cute and funky.

It is expedient for the victor to wish for peace restored; for the vanquished it is necessary.

We do learn something about ourselves when we are up against the wall, and we do most certainly come out stronger.