When you lived on the wrong side of the law, information, however vague or apparently meaningless, was everything. It gave you leverage. And leverage was power.

I was so shy and when my sister was born I found it hard. I was really strange and kind of too quiet.

The young Dickens was so alive, so self-confident, so funny.

Let me love Thee so that the honour, riches, and pleasures of the world may seem unworthy even of hatred - may not even be encumbrances.

Hope is the most beneficial of all the affections, and doth much to the prolongation of life.

Any act can be a prayer, if done as well as we are able.

I was in a vintage pub rock band called Clover in the 1970s.

I can do movies maybe that have already been written, but I can't do anything for months at a time.

The human mind is our fundamental resource.

Getting older is tough. I remember the last time I felt an erection. It was at the movies. The only trouble is, it belonged to the guy sitting next to me.

The principles applied in economic processes are general social principles.