The point is valid: the difference between survival and wipe-out in a physical crisis is nearly always a matter of conditioned reflexes.

The Edge... There is no honest way to explain it because the only people who really know where it is are the ones who have gone over.

There is not much mental distance between a feeling of having been screwed and the ethic of total retaliation, or at least the kind of random revenge that comes with outraging the public decency.

Justice is not cheap in this country, and people who insist on it are usually either desperate or possessed by some private determination bordering on monomania.

What do you want to write? What gets your goat? What irks you to no length? If you could change the world with words, what would they be?

Nothing you wear is more important than your smile.

Being followed is weird, that people want to discuss where I ate lunch or what I wear when I go to lunch... the private life is just gone.

I loved what Brigitte Bardot represented in the 60's. Definite favourite.

What you don't do is just say, "I've got all the ideas and all the knowledge, and listen to me."

I think when you get people who are really talented and you take them out of their comfort zone, you get a lot more out of them.

I'm definitely a people pleaser. I like people to be happy around me and be comfortable. I go out of my way, sometimes to a fault, to make sure everyone is okay.

You can be absolutely certain that when you feel you are being most unfairly tested, you are being prepared for great achievement.

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

We need to fashion policies with proper incentives to reduce the amount of carbon we are putting in the atmosphere.