Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

Without Elvis none of us could have made it.

I'm not trying to stump anybody... it's the beauty of the language that I'm interested in.

If anyone asks you what kind of music you play, tell him 'pop.' Don't tell him 'rock'n'roll' or they won't even let you in the hotel.

Death is very often referred to as a good career move.

There are essentially two main reasons to hold a phone up at a show. First, to capture a memory for yourself, a reminder of the moment you're enjoying. And second, to share that moment with someone - to express your emotions socially. Both seem perfectly legitimate to me.

Eternal vigilance is the price of eternal development.

The 100m taught me a lot and it's given me confidence.

I do not like carving the world into segments; we are one world.

As I've evolved, I'm capable of doing a lot of things at once, but really, as an entrepreneur and business person, it's more about adding the right structure to be able to handle scaling all those things as opposed to being at the forefront of doing a lot of them.

If you are in a position to influence someone, you are a leader.

I view myself primarily as a trial lawyer who happens to be writing, as opposed to a writer who happens to be a trial lawyer, so the audience is like a jury to me.

Once the world has been created, the fantasy author still has to bring the story's characters to life and unfold a gripping plot. That's why good fantasy is such a hard act to bring off.

When someone does something good, applaud! You will make two people happy.

I actually believe we are the superior gender. Why are we superior? Statistically, we outlive men by a good 10 years. No one should underestimate the power of nagging - it's on par with nuclear weapons.

Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.

Some guys leave a place after a long time, and they're bitter. Not me.

A person who is nice to you, but rude to the waiter, is not a nice person.

We have no patience with other people's vanity because it is offensive to our own.

I would love to do more on the stage; having actual contact with the audience is great. You can give them a good seeing to!

If you're too scared to put your dreams, thoughts, desires, fantasies on paper and share them with the world, then being an author isn't the right career for you.

It's a huge mistake not to embrace social media. We need to stay in touch and stay relevant to young people.

A human life is a story told by God.

For a really relaxing time, you want to go to a place where the work ethic hasn't taken hold, where the culture hasn't been taken over by the western values of constant striving.

When I got the job on 'Lost,' I was a broke university student living in the crappiest part of town, with a duct-taped back window on a broken-down car. I existed on peanut butter and tea.

You learn as you grow up, if you're intelligent - or even three-quarter witted - that there's no free lunch. You pay for things in various ways. Living, loving, everything else is a matter of the same principles: you learn to work with what you have.

Love is friendship set to music.

People assume you aren't sick unless they see the sickness on your skin like scars forming a map of all the ways you're hurting.

If you are dyslexic, your eyes work fine, your brain works fine, but there is a little short circuit in the wire that goes between the eye and the brain. Reading is not a fluid process.