We're all controlled neurotics.

Journalism is a kind of profession, or craft, or racket, for people who never wanted to grow up and go out into the real world.

The thing is helicopters are different from airplanes An airplane by it's nature wants to fly, and if not interfered with too strongly by unusual events or incompetent piloting, it will fly.

If you're a good journalist, what you do is live a lot of things vicariously, and report them for other people who want to live vicariously.

Statistics are to baseball what a flaky crust is to Mom's apple pie.

We're all controlled neurotics.

When 25 percent of the population believe the President should be impeached and 51 percent of the population believe in UFOs, you may or may not need a new President, but you definitely need a new population.

The moon is beautiful only when the mind is seeking beauty and the heart is loving.

I am very proud of this work because it is more about the meaning of the Easter Rising and its relationship to what this whole century has been about, people liberating themselves, freeing themselves.

Let my body be delivered to the earth without attention to the place where it lies; nothing should be associated with my dusty remains. Shame on him who draws any attention to a rotted flesh that is already no longer mine: he is worshipping the worms nibbling it.

My advice is, if you are going to go on 'X Factor,' you have to know who you are as an artist.

I learned to speak Italian, somewhat. Definitely enough to get around in Italy. My grandfather always used to swear at my grandmother in Italian.

I like to take writing retreats within a day's drive of home. Less travel time means more time for writing, which is the name of the game here.

It's through a leader's actions - what he or she does and says on a daily basis - that the essence of great leadership becomes apparent.

Even though professional soccer has become more about business and less about the game itself, I still believe football is a party for the legs that play it and for the eyes that watch it.

If you have company-owned stores, you make 100 percent of the profit from each one, but you have less entrepreneurial spirit.

God is acting on your soul all the time, whether you have spiritual sensations or not.

Facts are facts: No president since Franklin Delano Roosevelt in the Great Depression inherited a worse economy, bigger job losses or deeper problems from his predecessor. But President Obama is moving America forward, not back.

My parents pushed us very hard to work, both in the home, doing chores and cooking, and at school.

My heroes were never scientists. They were Graham Greene and Christopher Isherwood, you know, good writers.

I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.

Well, one always has an instinct to be a painter, and I've done quite a lot of painting at one time or another, though not with any public success.

As someone who's been doing a lot of classical theater recently, I loved the idea of getting to run around in Steven Alan, and not be in a corset and a wig, and not have a dialect, and get to be in a 90-minute play with no intermission, and get to do real comedy.

I work out to eat.

The American people deserve long-term, forward-thinking policies.

The value of surrounding yourself with positive people is not what you get from them, but how good a person you have become because of them.

I'm the complete opposite of every clean cut, decent-looking guy you could ever think of. Yet, I have the biggest heart in the world.

Firstly, should we be selling and buying irradiated meat? I think that's up to the consumer, ultimately. But the second point is, this irradiated meat should be clearly and unmistakably labeled as irradiated meat.

We want to raise the art of living well.

I started playing guitar kind of by accident.

I'm leaving on a jet plane. Don't know when I'll be back again