You can't imagine parlor ballads drifting out of high-rise multi-towered buildings. That kind of music existed in a more timeless state of life.

Sometimes you just have to bite your upper lip and put sunglasses on.

What's money? A man is a success if he gets up in the morning and goes to bed at night and in between does what he wants to do.

If you want to keep your memories, you first have to live them.

All I can do is be me, whoever that is.

People have a hard time accepting anything that overwhelms them.

Your heart is like the ocean, mysterious and dark.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Behind every beautiful thing, there's some kind of pain.

You need something to open up a new door, to show you something you seen before but overlooked a hundred times or more

How many times can a man turn his head, and pretend that he just doesn't see?

You don't need to be in the light to be a beacon of beauty.For Marta

A world in which people with learning difficulties have access to the resources they need to live happier, healthier, more secure and more meaningful lives.

The experimental poetry thing is not my thing. It's a programme of the avant-garde: basically a refusal of the kind of poetry I write.

Massachusetts women as a rule adhere too strongly to old-time conventions.

People are generally irrational, unreasonable and selfish. They deserve to be loved, anyway.

Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did.

I was starstruck by Michelle Obama. She's an amazing-looking lady, and I'm a massive Barack Obama fan anyway.

The bigger the budget, the less an audience is trusted, and that's the difference between a big-budget film and a small-budget film.

I am not a pessimist; to perceive evil where it exists is, in my opinion, a form of optimism

I'm trying to find my own version of what makes me feel beautiful.