It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.

I prefer insomnia to anaesthesia.

I vividly remember the stories my grandfather told me about the carnage of the First World War, which people tend to forget was one of the worst massacres in human history.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.

I live quietly at home among my family and friends.

But democracy isn't a state of perfection. It has to be improved, and that means constant vigilance.

People with lots of doubts sometimes find life more oppressive and exhausting than others, but they're more energetic - they aren't robots.

But I don't think I have any particular talent for prediction, because when you have three or four elements in hand, you don't have to be a genius to reach certain conclusions.

There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.

Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.

Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.

Greatness in the last analysis is largely bravery-courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards.

It got a little stressful in my first two years of high school, trying to make conference calls with investors in between classes, but I definitely learned a lot of important time-management lessons.

I never dreamt that I would do all the things that I have done. But things just happened to me all the time.

I never sued anybody, I never fought anybody or was in conflict or contention with any other party in a legal way. I feel that it hurts people, it hurts their families.

I personally adore origin stories - they're so intriguing, learning what shaped and formed a character.

It's a hell of a thing to be born, and if you're born you're at least entitled to your own self.

One of the ways they run forward is by viewing the thing they’re doing as something that’s going to be the whole world.

Can you hang in there with your investigators when things get going tough? Don't give up on investigators because they have a little weakness. Work with them until the Holy Ghost tells you not to.

If I weren't in the band, I would be a fan.

At the end of the program, I tried to talk to the kids a little bit about life skills.