Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.

I'm not a bad driver. And I never will be because I took lessons when I was quite a boy. I never had to pass a test because there wasn't such a thing when I first started driving a motor car. So I didn't have to pass one.

Well there are those that you wield and those that you join.

If we teach today's students as we taught yesterday's, we rob them of tomorrow.

There's nothing special about me. Nothing has come easy.

Dragonflies symbolize the change in perspective of yourself.

I have no fondness for pure form at all.

There is a tremendous amount of support for the approach we have taken, which again is to base our decisions on risk analysis and thoughtful scientific process.

There's a continuity between what I care about in any form: I care about it in my music, in article-writing, in how I dress, in how I live, in my relationships, in how I navigate paparazzi, how I decorate my home. There's such a continuity between everything that I don't really care what form it shows up in.

I've always been a person afraid of the dark. I was taught that when you have complete darkness, that's when spirits walk. In our house when I was growing up, all the doors were always cracked a little bit at night so you could get light into the room.

Growing up, I used to watch 'Happy Days,' 'Laverne & Shirley,' 'All in the Family.' Those were the shows I watched growing up with my family. And, believe it or not, 'McMillan and Wife' and 'Columbo.'

I like this idea of becoming fully realised.

We are all put in different positions for different reasons.

I've been dealing with the press for 45 years. You need a very long spoon to sup with them. While you are always grateful, they are like badly trained dogs. They smile and wag and bite your arm off.

We live in a beauty-obsessed age and success sometimes appears to hinge solely on the presentation of an image that is acceptable to the press.

I try to write characters that are as real, emotionally and psychologically, as I can make them; I feel the same way about setting. This often means that I'm drawing from my experiences and observations.

My body needs laughter as much as it needs tears. Both are cleansers of stress.

Human friends, friends in hardship and in life, this is our pure love, love of mother and son.

Classical - perhaps I should say 'orchestral' - music is so digital, so cut up, rhythmically, pitchwise and in terms of the roles of the musicians. It's all in little boxes. The reason you get child prodigies in chess, arithmetic, and classical composition is that they are all worlds of discontinuous, parceled-up possibilities.

It’s more fun to be a pirate than to join the navy.

There's a style to doing period pieces, and you can't do a Western without understanding 'My Darling Clementine.'

I want you to see that I'm looking. Look at me look at you. I'm cool with that.

As dutiful bishops soon discover, authoritarianism, or control from the top down, characterizes the hierarchical tradition.

I don't believe in 'greatest'. I believe in favorites.

All women do have a different sense of sexuality, or sense of fun, or sense of like what's sexy or cool or tough.

My parents aren't married. And one of the reasons why they never got married is because they had been married before, and they liked it the way it was. They didn't feel like they needed a piece of paper to be committed. So for me, I know that marriage is not a golden ticket.

I did art history and English literature at Newcastle.