What is real is beyond all reach.

The greatest explorer on this earth never takes voyages as long as those of the man who descends to the depth of his heart.

The man I am will always raise a protest against the man I wanted to be and the two will live together to the end, but the man I wanted to be will be the one on whom judgement will be passed.

Our life is a book that writes itself and whose principal themes sometimes escape us. We are like characters in a novel who do not always understand what the author wants of them.

A scrupulous man will never produce a great novel.

I enter the world called real as one enters a mist.

The secret is to write just anything, to dare to write just anything, because when you write just anything, you begin to say what is important.

A child's fear is a world whose dark corners are quite unknown to grownup people; it has its sky and its abysses, a sky without stars, abysses into which no light can ever penetrate.

Let us hope that good authors who are bad Christians will find salvation through the books they write.

Within ourselves is not very far and yet it is so far that one's whole life is not always long enough to get there.

I am probably exaggerating a little, but I owe my equilibrium to ink and paper.

What is real is beyond all reach.

No one would be foolish enough to choose war over peace in peace sons bury their fathers but in war fathers bury their sons.

Labels serve a purpose. They help one be identified. And I want to be identified.

What opera isn't violent? Two things happen, violence and love. And other than that, name something else. You can't.

What's aero braking? That's a way to use the gravity and upper atmosphere of Earth to sling shot a ship out either deeper into space, or slow it down to be 'captured' by Earth's gravity.

I love to sing. Mostly about love and sex.

My hair is a wild, untamable beast! I like letting it grow; my bangs grow whatever way they want and I kind of follow their rule. So side bangs, poof bangs - it's kind of unpredictable.

My advice is this. For Christ's sake, don't write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

When I was growing up, it was the guys who were hardest at school who got the prettiest girls. It's a status thing.

I find dealing with tempered chocolate a bit tricky, but that's a chocolatier's job. So I dabble, but I wouldn't profess to be good at it.

If you get enough sleep, cut back on cigarettes and red meat, you look better the next day.

When I discovered that I could tune into American radio stations after dark, this was the hippest thing to me. It sort of saved my life.

There's just no real job security when you're shooting a show about an apocalypse, and anybody could die at any time.

If you reject the food, ignore the customs, fear the religion, and avoid the people, you might better stay home.

I was always one of those people who would watch the Super Bowl as much for the sports as I did for the ads. I was always just sort of fascinated by the fact that when you turn on the TV, there was motion, there was moving pictures on it.

You can't break my spirit, it's my dreams you take.

Half the time when brothers wrestle, it's just an excuse to hug each other.

I suppose for me as an artist it wasn't always just about expressing my work; I really wanted, more than anything else, to contribute in some way to the culture that I was living in. It just seemed like a challenge to move it a little bit towards the way I thought it might be interesting to go.

'E.T.' was a healing movie; it was a heart movie. It was all about getting about getting home and love.

New York has surprised me a couple of times. I was a snob about pizza, but I've found one or two places that allow me to forget deep dish for a while.

Forgive O Lord my little jokes on Thee And Ill forgive Thy great big one on me.

I was kosher until I had my Bar Mitzvah, and I parlayed officially becoming a man into telling my father I wanted to eat cheeseburgers.

We moved there a year ago, just as a weekend place. Then we decided to move out of London completely. We will eventually have to work it out a bit more, because you can't have a little boy living with his sisters like that, can you? But we like the idea of closeness.

I think it is important for someone like me to not run away from who I am but embrace it. LGBT people across the country need to know they have a friend in Congress.

I watch an awful lot of old Hollywood movies - I'll devour anything with Bette Davis or Joan Crawford. My absolute favourite is 'Sunset Boulevard' starring Gloria Swanson.