If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.

If you were to climb up on your desk, walk around behind your monitor and lean way over so you could see the screen, you'd be able to read "Wordplay" just as easily as you could sitting in your chair.

As both a fine artist and a graphic designer, I specialize in the visual presentation of words.

Language, philosophy, and science are interwoven into the design of words, which are manipulated to create surprising illusions.

I loved working with 'The Avengers' cast and we had a great time, but it was a job, and they had other commitments during that job, so they would go off and do other things.

England has been called, with great felicity of conception, 'the land of liberty and good sense.' We have preserved many of the advantages of a free people, which the nations of the Continent have long since lost.

Used to one's absence, though we ache for their presence, the presence of the one who was once absent, tortures, with the absence of the one who was once present.

The aging of the U.S. population is a theme that we believe strongly in and the health care sector is really right in the bulls eye of this particular theme.

We must have Christian ethics for our children, good and strong, but we must make them attractive, too, and it can be done.

I have no desire to write historical anything or futuristic anything - I want to find a way to get at the essence of what it's like to be alive now. The reason why great novels from centuries ago are still great is because that's what they were doing; it's like a message from another culture.

Writing is not a competitive sport. Everyone that writes has his or her own voice.

Early on, if I was alone two three nights in a row, I'd start writing poems about suicide.

Providence is like a curious piece of tapestry made of a thousand shreds, which, single, appear useless, but put together, they represent a beautiful history to the eye.

The Centre is very important to me; it's about trust - about truth.

The payment made by a manufacturer to a patentee for the privilege of using the patent process, is usually termed, in commercial language, a rent; and under the same head must be ranked all extraordinary qualities of body and mind.

One of the things I enjoyed the most is just working as an actor.

If time be of all things the most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality.

People keep asking if I believe in ghosts. If you're talking about poltergeists and weird, supernatural phenomena, not really.

If you do the best you can, you never have to look back.

You should never bet against anything in science at odds of more than about 1012 to 1.

The spirit of meditation is the combating of self-willed thinking-it is a combat against the weight of one's feelings.

The best kind of onion soup is the simplest kind.

I trained as a classical guitarist but that was it.

A war with Pakistan would be an utter disaster.

Steroids can seem necessary to compete at the highest levels, and the quick rewards can outweigh the long term consequences to the user's health.

I will tell you that when I was heavy, people would say to me - and it was such a backhanded compliment - they would say, 'You've got such a beautiful face,' in the way of, like, 'Oh, isn't it a shame that from the neck down you're questionable.'

You can't have a perfect show every time.

I hope to have a career like Jodie Foster, going from child to adult actress.