Economists are behavioural psychologists, but they think more is better; they want to make everyone richer. They should pause. More's not necessarily better

There is no evidence that having more guns reduces crime. None at All.

I was desperate not to confront the fact that this really could be it—that "nineteen" didn't matter, that there really was a point at which even young bodies fail. I was not immortal.

In our minds, rich is always the other person, the other family. Rich is having more than you currently have. If that is the case, you can be rich and not feel it. You can be rich and not know it.

I've always feel like it's been my place to offer an alternative.

I don't wear a wig. I'd feel terrible onstage with a wig. I hate to be so 'Actors Studio'-ish, but I like to feel it's me out there.

Long cold nights mark November's return, grey rains fall, wind walks in the bronze oak leaves.

I began to know that each morning reasserted the problems of night before, that sleep suspended all but changed nothing, that you couldn’t make yourself over between dawn and dusk.

The husbands of very beautiful women belong to the criminal classes.

Branding is everything. A young girl once came up to me and told me I could be famous because I looked just like Richard Branson!

Modern science cannot explain why the laws of physics are exactly balanced for animal life to exist.

I was a great fan of Jim Henson.