I was studying sculpture and painting and was working on a degree so I could become a teacher. I really liked teaching, and it was something I was pursuing when I got out of school.

If I had a normal life Id quite cheerfully go mad and fall over right now

When you're born with a tail, you learn to go through doors fast.

With abstract work, I never was quite sure what it was that felt right about the painting, but I did know that I responded to it and I liked whatever it was offering me.

I had stopped painting around 2000, which I guess was when the music thing started getting pretty busy. I just didn't have enough time to pursue it properly.

Change takes time. But, it also takes people.

Ideas are never original, " Kelsier said. "Only one thing is.""And what is that?"Style, " Kelsier said.Then he punched Ruin across the face.

We love women in proportion to their degree of strangeness to us.

The Reformation was cradled in the printing-press, and established by no other instrument.

The misers cheese is wholesomest

People laughed at the way I dressed, but that was the secret of my success. I didn't look like anyone.

Every day as Chancellor I see alerts telling me of risks around the world.

We have a serious problem: America is addicted to oil... The best way to break this addiction is through technology.

You win the lasting laurels with your laughter.