Leave the atom alone.

Leave the atom alone.

Ding-dong, the wicked witch is dead.

The Lord made Adam, the Lord made Eve, he made 'em both a little bit naive.

Follow the yellow brick road.

There ought to be a law against necessity.

When I'm not near the girl I love, I love the girl I'm near.

When the idle poor become the idle rich, you'll never know just who is who, or which is which.

April in Paris, chestnuts in blossom, holiday tables under the trees.

Words make you think a thought. Music makes you feel a feeling. A song makes you feel a thought.

Follow the fellow who follows a dream.

The films that I do are deep, introspective, brooding roles that you're in this heavy headspace all the time.

I want to go to the Maldives before they sink, but just because it's the most beautiful place on earth.

Most people I've talked to are convinced that they're not getting valuable information from news media anymore. I'm not talking about tinfoil-hatters either, these are intelligent people who believe their news media has failed them.

'Instagram' Direct is a really interesting feature because it's grown significantly since we launched it. People continue to use it to communicate more privately.

Actions lie louder than words.

There's an axiom I live by: 'There is no art without politics.' You either choose to engage it, or you choose political apathy. This ties in with ideas around real-time performance and feedback.

It's obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life - for 8 billion or more people - without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.

These three movements were born spontaneously and independently of the initiative of a few French patriots who had a place in the old political groups and parties.

In any grass-roots campaign, building an ongoing base of support is as important as winning the ultimate goal.

I do have motivation. A lot of motivation.

The intense campaigns against domestic violence, rape, sexual harassment, and inequity in the schools all too often depend on an image of women as weak and victimized.

Mackerel is sustainable and healthy.

The Puritans removed organs and paintings from churches, but bought them for private use in their homes.

I'm always pretty nervous when I do anything! I walk very slowly. I'm very careful.

Sometimes a true original doesn't need to change a thing.

The fastest way to get around the southern Chinese city of Foshan is on the back of a motorcycle-for-hire.

I have invested some money and I have a home, but people don't realise that you might only be working for a few weeks of the year and remain unemployed the rest of the time.

I'd like to think the scientists need us - but do they? Did Newton need Blake?

If you suppress grief too much, it can well redouble.

Teach For America provides one of the most critical pipelines for bringing new talent into public education.

Deep in my cortex, the year is divided into reading seasons. The period from mid-October to Christmas, for instance, is 'ghost story' time, while Jane Austen and P. G. Wodehouse pretty much own April and May.

To tell someone not to be emotional is to tell them to be dead.

O! for a muse of fire, that would ascend the brightest heaven of invention.

Don't time travel into the past, roaming through the nuances as if they can change. Don't bookmark pages you've already read.