A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

Frankly, despite my horror of the press, I'd love to rise from the grave every ten years or so and go buy a few newspapers.

If you were to ask me if I'd ever had the bad luck to miss my daily cocktail, I'd have to say that I doubt it; where certain things are concerned, I plan ahead.

Fortunately, somewhere between chance and mystery lies imagination, the only thing that protects our freedom, despite the fact that people keep trying to reduce it or kill it off altogether.

I can only wait for the final amnesia, the one that can erase an entire life.

Thank God I'm an atheist.

The decline of the aperitif may well be one of the most depressing phenomena of our time.

In the name of Hippocrates, doctors have invented the most exquisite form of torture ever known to man: survival.

Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.

A paranoiac like a poet, is born, not made.

God and Country are an unbeatable team; they break all records for oppression and bloodshed.

Mystery is the basic element of all works of art.

I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about.

Sometimes holding on does more damage than letting go.

At Microsoft, we're aspiring to have a living, learning culture with a growth mindset that allows us to learn from ourselves and our customers. These are the key attributes of the new culture at Microsoft, and I feel great about how it seems to be resonating and how it's seen as empowering.

I grew up in Texas, eating meat five times a day, and I liked meat. But I began being a vegetarian when I was 19 because I found that I felt better.

Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.

If you go out there and start making noise and making sales - people will find you. Sales cure all. You can talk about how great your business plan is and how well you are going to do. You can make up your own opinions, but you cannot make up your own facts. Sales cure all.

The culture of celebrity has become insane. It's all based on fantasy, and I find it creepy and disturbing.

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

I love westerns. I've always wanted to do a western.

There are as many ways to write songs as there are songs.

A responsive audience is the best encouragement an actor can have.

I love Opening Ceremony, Kenzo - anything Humberto Leon and Carol Lim touch. I drool over Christopher Kane, Mary Katrantzou, Delpozo, and Wes Gordon.

I'm pushing ahead on my own - you no longer need a large record company to make you a star.

I am really not interested in the cinema.

Somebody saying something offensive to you or insulting to you is not pleasant, but it's part of life.

Only through art can we emerge from ourselves and know what another person sees.

Every good citizen makes his country's honor his own, and cherishes it not only as precious but as sacred. He is willing to risk his life in its defense and is conscious that he gains protection while he gives it.

Thou strange piece of wild nature!

It seems to me that unless you or someone very close to you has had a bad head injury, you really can't fathom it. You have no concept of what it is all about. It was so difficult for my whole family, not just me.

The criticism does not hurt because I have always been my own worst critic. I wouldn't say I don't respect other people's opinions, but my opinion is the most important.

People get so in the habit of worry that if you save them from drowning and put them on a bank to dry in the sun with hot chocolate and muffins they wonder whether they are catching cold.

Never give a sucker an even break

It was nice to finish up Stanford. I think I always felt that I would be there for four years and graduate, and definitely didn't want to leave early. A degree was definitely a plus, and I was having a lot of fun in school. But after football, you know, I don't know. I really did enjoy studying architecture; it was a blast.

I work to take care of my family, not the other way around.