My whole life as a grammar-school boy, getting to Cambridge University and working on the 'London Sunday Times' has been very aspirational.

It's true; I'm fascinated by elite groups.

Fear generates anger, and fear generates violence, and those were part of what built the Saudi state.

Of all the varieties of modern pollution, noise is the most insidious.

There is a convention that the principal heir should be kept away from real danger. As the 'spare' rather than the heir, Harry is expected by the royal family to take the ultimate military risks.

The Billy Carter of the British monarchy.

It's the love you had that matters, isn't it, not the pain.

We try to transform each detainee from a young man who wants to die to a young man who wants to live. Prince Mohammed bin Nayef

I've always wanted to wake up one day in a world where I liked the right people, and they lied me in return. I worry it'll never happen.

It's funny, like 15 years ago when I was a kid doing all the John Hughes movies, I remember Bruce Willis was the only guy who was transitioning from television into film.

I had the only beard in the Western Hemisphere that made Bob Dylan's look good.

Your most vauluable asset can be your willingness to persist longer than anyone else.

I was born in segregated Birmingham, Alabama. I didn't have a white classmate till we moved to Denver.

You're never going to kill storytelling, because it's built into the human plan. We come with it.

The imagination equips us to perceive reality when it is not fully materialized.

Cause and effect, means and ends, seed and fruit cannot be severed; for the effect already blooms in the cause, the end preexists in the means, the fruit in the seed

You have to do things for yourself, not for anybody else.

To express hope by some star, the eagerness of a soul by a sunset radiance. Certainly there is nothing in that of stereoscopic realism, but is it not something that actually exists?