More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

The most important pathological effects of pollution are extremely delayed and indirect.

Man shapes himself through decisions that shape his environment.

More can be learned from what works than from what fails.

To a surprising extent, modern man has retained unaltered the bodily constitution, physical responses, and emotional drives which he has inherited from his ancestors. Yet he lives in a mechanized, air-conditioned, and regimented world radically different from the one in which he evolved.

Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue it makes it a requirement for survival.

Human life implies adventure and there is no adventure without struggles and dangers.

When I'm writing songs, I write visually. When I'm writing the words down and I listen to the melody and the lyrics, I start seeing the video form. And if I can get through a song and from the beginning to the end have the whole video in my mind, I think that's a great song.

I like figuring out where I need to be mentally so that I'm not thinking about the camera and that it's second nature. I want to get to a place where I can exist within the confines of what you can do with filmmaking and not have to think about it.

In character in manner in style in all the things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

I grew up on the softball field. Every day I would take my glove and my bat with me.

I want to start my own airplane business. I'm going to buy two Dakotas, paint them up in war colours and do, er, nostalgia trips to Arnhem - you know, where the old paratroopers used to go - and charge them about 20 quid a time.

If you must eat a banana in public never make eye contact.

Since I was a kid, I've had this morbid fascination with dark and scary subject matter.

The best writers who have put pen to paper have often had a journalism background.

America is a country that has been skating for ages on its unparalleled ability to look marvelous on the outside.

It's been my policy to view the Internet not as an 'information highway', but as an electronic asylum filled with babbling loonies.

I have no dating life.

Years ago, during a John Grisham phase, I tried to pinpoint exactly why I found Grisham's often predictable legal thrillers quite so comforting. The best answer I could come up with was the frequency with which Grisham tells us that his lead characters are sipping coffee. When it comes to food and drink, predictability can console.

Whenever I cook, I think of Spanish music, so I always have to listen to some sort of salsa. It gets your body going.

Unlike films, which can be easily disseminated worldwide via DVDs and the Internet, plays struggle to find an international audience.

When lawmakers start to make laws that hurt single women, often the women that they're hurting the most are not the economically powerful ones. They're not Sandra Fluke. They're not Lena Dunham, who conservatives hate more than anybody. They're hurting low-earning single mothers.

Advertising may be described as the science of arresting the human intelligence long enough to get money from it.

A lot of people think this is a goodie two-shoes talking. But we do have a tendency to complain rather than celebrating who we are. I learned at my mother's knee it's better to appreciate what's happening... I think we kind of talk ourselves into the negative sometimes.

We should get rid of the SAT as fast as we can. Look, there are bigger problems in society. This is not the biggest problem we have. But it's so easy to get rid of it. Right? Just pull the plug.

Charity begins at home and justice begins next door.

This is the new year the new you. You can pass through another year coasting on cruise control. Or you can step out of your comfort zone trying things you have never done before make 2012 as the year that you elevate from where you are soar high. Make it happen

Tonight, we reclaim our country so that we can pass on to future generations the freedoms and the opportunity that we have inherited from those who came before us.

I'm suspicious of the idea of architects acting like business executives, brand managers, or purveyors of luxury goods.

When I was younger, I used to watch all the black-and-white 'Dracula's and 'Frankenstein's.

I get really nervous if pigeons are flying around before shows. I can't stand them after one once flew in through my bathroom window and went for me while I was having a wee. That was enough. I think pigeons target me.