I hate being in Los Angeles when it's football season. I want to be in New York. It just doesn't feel right if I'm away.

I like traditions, and the national anthem is important.

Keeping your private life as private as possible is the smartest thing.

Whenever I dream about flying, it's the best feeling in the world.

There's nothing worse than people who want to make you feel better when you are losing. I just want to smack them.

Even when I was a kid, I had this insane head of flaming hair. It looked like a wig.

I have so many friends who have no idea what they want to do. They are out of college and working, but not sure they are doing what they want to do, which is normal.

Everybody has to be responsible for their own actions - and if they do something wrong, I believe in paying for it.

I don't ever take anything for granted.

I feel like I'm exactly where I should be.

Eventually you get bored and you want to work.

Every decent man had to be against fascism, period.

What is the empathy deficit? The inability of people to stand in other folks shoes. It's hard to empathize with people who have different values than you

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

It should be like a driver's license - no one can have an Instagram until they're 18. It's the wild, wild west, the internet.

The word 'freedom' means for me not a point of departure but a genuine point of arrival. The point of departure is defined by the word 'order.' Freedom cannot exist without the concept of order.

If I am not working, I won't wear makeup and I will wear flats.

Dangerously well’— what an irony is this: it expresses precisely the doubleness, the paradox, of feeling ‘too well

The most insupportable of tyrants exclaim against the exercise of arbitrary power.

Was it worse for him, Reynie wondered, to have felt loved and then rejected? Or was it worse to have always felt alone?

Many universities have asked me to come for a semester but I don't want to do it because I don't have the patience.