My father was right: you could make anybody amazing just by insisting they were.

Grief lasts longer than sympathy, which is one of the tragedies of the grieving.

It's a happy life, but someone is missing. It's a happy life, and someone is missing.

The cure for unhappiness is happiness, I don't care what anyone says.

Librarian like Stewardess, Certified Public Accountant, Used Car Salesman is one of those occupations that people assume attract a certain deformed personality.

The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.

You can't out-travel sadness. I travel not to get away from my troubles but to see how they look in front of famous buildings

I believe marriage is a spectator sport.

I come from food the way some people come from money. Food was the medium I grew up in, what we talked about, what shaped our days.

Books remember all the things you cannot contain.

Fire is a speed reader, which is why the ignorant burn books: fire races through pages, takes care of all the knowledge, and never bores you with a summary.

Religion and nationalism? I defecate on the altar of religious conviction, and wipe my arse on the flag of national pride.

I started acting when I was about 18. I was a model for a couple of years before that

The future is not inevitable. We can influence it, if we know what we want it to be.

In capitalist history, invasion and class struggle are not opposites, as the official legend would have us believe, but one is the means and the expression of the other.

Every man is entitled to be valued by his best moment.

To forbid birth is only quicker murder.

As a kid when I was growing up, as any kid, you think you know every thing and I was no different to that.

Oppositions are not there to get legislation through. Oppositions are there to hold the government to account.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

You will find it easier to accept contrary views, knowing that you are not defined by anything or anyone external to yourself.