Governments and fashions come and go but Jane Eyre is for all time.

Take no heed of her.... She reads a lot of books.

Sometimes, a word succeeds beyond the wildest dreams of its creators, like a virus sent into the world to infect common speech.

Individual words, sounds, squiggles on paper with no meanings other than those with which our imagination can clothe them.

Religion isn't the cause of wars, it's the excuse.

I shouldn't believe anything I say, if I were you-and that includes what I just told you.

True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...

I think Wordsworth was as surprised to see me as I was him. It can't be usual to go to your favorite memory only to find someone already there, admiring the view ahead of you.

I was in '78 recently, " he announced. "I brought you this."He handed me a single by the Beatles. I didn't recognize the title."Didn't they split in '70?""Not always. How are things?

Punctuality is the thief of time.

Dream as big as you desire, but don't forget to wake yourself from it with some consistent effective actions.

Are you saying that it hurts to look at me?' 'I'm saying you're the first sunlight I've glimpsed in a long time, ' he said.

I did the math. (I presume Americans don't pluralise mathematics because they only plan to do it once.)

It takes a real soldier to stay in the music industry and live off the things that have been put before me and be able to survive all this time because it has not been easy.

A child can identify with adult characters- but only if they are sympathetically drawn and simple enough.

On the New England Patriots losing the Super Bowl after going 18-0: We set high expectations, now we go down as 18-1, and that is one big zit. It is one big blemish. We choked.

Today for the first time, at least in this country, you don't have to use those powers to survive. Our societal structure now provides the possibility to survive without using sexual manipulation.

A person's self-esteem has nothing to do with how she looks.

I don't think there's anything exceptional or noble in being philanthropic. It's the other attitude that confuses me.