I had the sensation that I might always be running like this, that I would always have to run, and that I would always be able to run.

We are unusual and tragic and alive.

I met a lot of great people in Saudi Arabia and I'd like to see them again. And I'd love to spend more time in the desert and in the mountains. I felt really at home there.

Dignity is an affectation, cute but eccentric, like learning French or collecting scarves.

We must do extraordinary things. We have to. It would be absurd not to.

Books have a unique way of stopping time in a particular moment and saying: Let’s not forget this.

Better to be at the bottom of a ladder you want to climb than in the middle of some ladder you don’t, right?

Here I am Rock You Like a Hurricane.

Again the greatest use of a human was to be useful. Not to consume, not to watch, but to do something for someone else that improved their life, even for a few minutes.

But everyone disappears, no matter who loves them.

Pain comes at me and I take it, chew it for a few minutes, and spit it back out. It's just not my thing anymore.

Don’t answer every critic. Sometimes, the answers you give may be right but misconceived and misunderstood.

If it's wrong when they do it, it's wrong when we do it.

Love has no form, no color and is certainly not prejudice or judgmental.

Israel must be able to defend itself - by itself - against any threat.

Every time you start a movie is to explore with a director and if you can with the actors and with the other collaborators and try to figure out what's the best way to tell the specific story.

Poverty is a divine stepmother who does for youths what their own mothers were unable to do. It introduces them to frugality, to the world and to life.

I've kind of shut myself off to a lot of new music because I don't want to be influenced by it.

There is more selfishness and less principle among members of Congress than I had any conception of, before I became President of the U.S.

If you realize too acutely how valuable time is, you are too paralyzed to do anything.

The most influential person in Europe in the last 20 to 30 years has been Margaret Thatcher. Without her we'd all be living in some French bloody unemployed republic.