Wonderful things happen when your brain is empty.

My workspace is defined by books, ephemera, quiet and light. I don't have a computer, telephone or a fax machine there.

What protects you in this world from sadness and from the loss of an ability to do something? ... Work and love.

Everyone I know is looking for solace, hope and a tasty snack.

A visit to a museum is a search for beauty, truth, and meaning in our lives. Go to museums as often as you can.

Flowers lead to books, which lead to thinking and not thinking and then more flowers and music, music. Then many more flowers and many more books.

I like the brooding man - a brooding man with a sense of humor.

if something does go wrong, here is my advice... KEEP CALM and CARRY ON.

Go out and walk. That is the glory of life.

In any work you do, you can be profound one minute, and then you be superficial the next, and you can be smart and insightful and then insipid. There can be room for all that.

Washing dishes is the anecdote to confusion. I know that for a fact.

Blest paper-credit! last and best supply! That lends corruption lighter wings to fly!

I've never formally trained for pain management, but I have a good understanding of how to conquer it. I just analyze the pain, feel it in the moment, and then mentally become numb to it.

True eloquence consists in saying all that should be said, and that only.

We shall all be the gainers if we can create a world fit for small states to live in.

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

No period of my life has been one of such unmixed happiness as the four years which have been spent within college walls.

It's about glowing lights and small things that are big.

I have to say it's been tough to leave the Ferrari family, which has been a big part of my career.

Every great movement in the world starts with a tiny group of people who simply refuse to accept a situation.

The problem is, there are definitely some genuinely lame things on television, and there's more at the bottom of the barrel, because the barrel in a sense has gotten bigger.