He who doesn't fear death dies only once.

He who is silent and bows his head dies every time he does so. He who speaks aloud and walks with his head held high dies only once.

The important thing is not establishing if you are afraid or not but it's to be able to live with your own fear without being influenced by it. Otherwise it's not courage anymore, but recklessness.

If you are scared you die every day. If you are not scared, you die only once.

Just because there's a trillion places to put an idea doesn't mean you don't need an idea in the first place

My son is about ninety nine percent of my life.

My most treasured item is the brown leather bag that my mum bought me from a little Italian shop for my 21st. It's supposed to be a vanity bag, but I use it as a handbag.

Tobacco is the opiate of the gentleman, the religion of the rich.

Gospel songs are the songs of hope. When you sing gospel you have the feeling there is a cure for what's wrong, but when you are through with the blues, you've got nothing to rest on.

In the end I'm still a writer. I'm still a journalist, and my first responsibility is to my readers. That's where I have to draw the line.

It is very likely that many firms spend more on advertising than, for their own best interests, they should.

Bacon is like a good pair of Levi's-it never goes out of style.

I think television scripts have become really intriguing and well-done. And writers have stopped drawing any actual line between film and television they used to never cross.