I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Love is when the desire to be desired takes you so badly that you feel you could die of it.

I have tried to do what is true and not ideal.

Of course one should not drink much, but often.

I paint things as they are. I don't comment.

I have always been a pencil.

My dear Mama, you are definitely the hen who hatched a famous duck.

Never be tempted by water. The water tap should be sealed at lunchtime. If, for example, a sauce goes wrong, adding water doesn't help at all; one only achieves a taste of dishwater.

Philandering impedes, as everyone knows, the ability to concentrate.

The body of a beautiful woman is not made for love; it is too exquisite.

The cafes bore me; going downstairs is a nuisance. Painting and sleeping - that's all there is.

The harmony of the luncheon is achieved by a combination of the two main courses which are the focus of the menu.

Um, and I'm also very proud of my work on George of the Jungle 2.

After more than a decade as the editor of 'Wired' magazine, Chris Anderson started the company of his dreams - a robotics manufacturing company called 3D Robotics - to produce the autonomous flying vehicles coming out of DIY Drones.

Now my main goal is my solo career, so I want to keep doing that.

All you hear is time stand still in travel and feel such peace and absolute

We believe in honoring our mothers and fathers and keeping our smallest residents - our children - healthy. The politicians in charge of Texas now clearly don't. Perry has refused to even consider expanding health care coverage in Texas because he cares more about scoring political points than he does about our Texas families.

I think that anyone who wants to start their own business can, but not any type of business.

Nobody mountain bikes anymore - or ever did - in comedy, so I have to go by myself.

I didn't really understand racism because I grew up in an all-black society, so I didn't see how it was possible not to like me!

It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything.

I don't mind where I work, it's really nice to be able to travel around and taste the flavours of different countries.

I always find it difficult to dress in between seasons, but I quite like putting T-shirts on with a vest over the top and another layer so you can peel them back as the day goes on.

Trust your instinct to the end, though you can render no reason.

I think we're all good and bad, but good's not funny. Bad is funny. Suppress the good and let the bad out, and then you can be funny.

The theme for me is love and the lack of it. We all want that and we don't know how to get it, and everything we do is some kind of attempt to capture it for ourselves.

I'm kind of concerned about 'Ego & Hubris' because I'm thinking that people will read it and maybe even be entertained by it, but at the end of it, you know, they'll wonder, 'Why did this guy write this? What was the point of it?'

In a way, publishing in 2005 was similar to publishing in 1950. Nobody kept blogs; that was still optional. I didn't even have a website then.

I think to be a movie critic is troubling from one major respect. If you are forced to watch ten movies a week, it's really only something you can do for a few years. After a while, it's a bit too much.

At school, I was never given a sense that poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of using language. Rhythms and the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes some kind of claim of honesty.

The world has become more complex as technology and easy travel mixes cultures without homogenizing them.

They solved the problem of coexistence through the use of individual stereo headphones.

Inspiration comes from everywhere: books, art, people on the street. It is an interior process for me.

Remember that sometimes not getting what you want is a wonderful stroke of luck.

I could do Daniel Day-Lewis's job as well as him.

The true way to soften one's troubles is to solace those of others.