What's perfect now, might not be so 10 years hence. Whatever we're basing our design ideas on is not what we remember in the past. It's something that kind of folds in on itself.

Making work without memory is probably one of my biggest fears. It would be indistinguishable from work that is lazy.

The timeless in you is aware of life's timelessness. And knows that yesterday is but today's memory and tomorrow is today's dream.

A rock star does not age!

He that contemplates hath a day without night.

You listen to Handel operas, right? And there are a thousand of them, right? And they all sound alike. If I look back on my work, maybe it's the same thing.

I never broke up with my girlfriends, they broke up with me.

The passion for fact in a raw state is a peculiarity of the novelist.

Determine to live life with flair and laughter.

I don't look at life as a battle or as a fight. I don't think I'm scrappy. I'm accepting.

Egypt under Hosni Mubarak had deteriorated to the status of a failed state. We must wipe the slate clean and start again.

The mob that hails the man on horseback, the Caesars and conquering heroes, does not retain its freedoms for long.