It seems an insult to nature and to the Creator to imagine that pregnancy was ever intended to be a sickness.

Lord, you're Irish, " said Will. "Can you make things that don't have potatoes in them? We had an Irish cook once when I was a boy. Potato pie, potato custard, potatoes with potato sauce...

For me, it's important to keep a level of anonymity.

It's not whether you fall or make a mistake, it's what you do when you fall. And I say you stand up. You keep standing up. It's not how many times you fall, it's how many times you stand up.

Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.

As a cub reporter, I devoured books about journalism.

We're not winning because of talent. We're just beating bad teams.

I'm not a pop act, churning stuff out really quickly. I find the music that arises from that style of working is distracted, not particularly profound.

It is wisdom to think upon anything before we execute it.

The French hold onto their traditions. I was always so alienated in America. My work was this constant reaction to that.

I wish we were alone,” he says. “I almost always wish that,” I say.