It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

It's becoming very much like 1979 again.

The artist must bow to the monster of his own imagination.

The impulse to dream was slowly beaten out of me by experience. Now it surged up again and I hungered for books, new ways of looking and seeing.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo, and if an echo sounded, no matter how faintly, I would send other words to tell, to march, to fight, to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Don't leave inferences to be drawn when evidence can be presented.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prisons.

I'd like to see the bay cleaned up before I die.

Men can starve from a lack of self-realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Men simply copied the realities of their hearts when they built prison. They simply extended into objective reality what was already a subjective reality. Only jailers really believe in jails.

If a man confessed anything on his death bed it was the truth for no man could stare death in the face and lie.

I would hurl words into this darkness and wait for an echo and if an echo sounded no matter how faintly I would send other words to tell to march to fight to create a sense of hunger for life that gnaws in us all.

Men can starve from a lack of self realization as much as they can from a lack of bread.

Some people bear three kinds of trouble - the ones they've had, the ones they have, and the ones they expect to have.

Most of the people in New York are very often from somewhere else.

For economist the real world is often a special case.

Both TV and movies seem to be produced in a more similar way as time goes on. It used to be that movies were much bigger productions on every level and took much longer to shoot. I liked that. But with the advent of digital, everything can be done much quicker and cheaper, and that seems to be the goal of most movies and TV these days.

Sometimes I get so wrought up being brushed, poked and pinned all day.

Constant attention by a good nurse may be just as important as a major operation by a surgeon.

Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story - I don't think they exist.

If you make a mistake, people are going to know about it really fast - and I was making a ton of them when I was a kid.

It's dangerous when people are willing to give up their privacy.

It's one thing to donate money. It's a whole other thing to give an opportunity for someone to make his own money.

It is sometimes said that the major discoveries have already been made and that there is nothing important left to find. This attitude is altogether too pessimistic. There are plenty of ideas and plenty of things left to discover. The trick is to find the right path from one to the other.

My opposition to Interviews lies in the fact that offhand answers have little value or grace of expression, and that such oral give and take helps to perpetuate the decline of the English language.

I'm a total control freak and love to participate in the design of every single aspect of life.

When you read something, and especially when you're reading compellingly great, that becomes part of your identity, at least while you're reading it. You become changed by reading it.

There's no time like the present

Privacy is a function of liberty.

Self-doubt inflicts the deepest wounds.

God, I always just think of myself as a jeans and T-shirt kind of person.

Losing my father at a tender age was extremely important in being able to accept what happened to me later when I became a quadriplegic.

On 'EastEnders,' if someone gets surprising news on the phone, the scene ends with them looking at their handset in amazement. No one in real life does that.

I feel that for the first time in a long time, educated Pakistanis are returning to their country to start up educational projects, to start up businesses, so instead of the brain-drain that happened in the 1950s and 1960s, the country is growing and improving economically.

When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.

Someone has to be the villain. I'm the most villainized player right now. People don't like me.

I will give a proof to demonstrate with facts that there are no rules in painting and that oppression or servile obligation of making all study or follow the same path is a great impediment for the young who profess this very difficult art.