It is unlikely that God's plan for the universe includes making you rich.

Chaos is not dangerous until it begins to look orderly.

If you're losing a tug of war with a tiger, give it the rope. You can always buy a new one.

The lucky renew their energy through the activity in which they're engaged.

You have to really be courageous about your instincts and your ideas. Otherwise you'll just knuckle under, and things that might have been memorable will be lost.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional

Mystery is delightful, but unscientific, since it depends upon ignorance.

Records must not be the focus and that's the most important thing. It mustn't come at the cost of the team.

She's an amazing dog and really inspired everything that's in this book.

I had a very unusual contract. Most artists actually pay for their record dates and it comes out of their royalties. I paid for nothing.

You could argue the banks are much better capitalised than they were going into the crisis, and everyone's in a much more vigilant state because they still remember the crisis.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

Americans use the word "dream" as often as psychoanalysts do.