There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

Exercise: the more serious you are, the more fun it becomes.

I think that my father would find it so confusing that people want to imitate him. Not because he didn't have confidence in who he was, but because he never imitated anybody. He was his own person.

I like the character roles. Somewhere back there I really came to the conclusion in my mind that the difference between acting and stardom was major. And that if you become a star, people are going to go to see you. If you remain an actor, they're going to go and see the story you're in.

One of the things I realized... is how few success stories there are in websites or products or businesses that exist primarily for an altruistic purpose.

Killing someone is the ultimate crime while on the other hand killing someone in uniform is fulfillment of duty.

Heights by great men reached and kept were not obtained by sudden flight but, while their companions slept, they were toiling upward in the night.

But nobody is listening to those points. They are just listening to the gossip which is saying that I knew I was positive for all these years because I had a faked test a few years ago.

When I started writing a business column 15 years ago, I knew I'd found the perfect job for myself. As a columnist I could pick my own topic, do my own analysis, say what I wanted to say and attribute it to myself. Best of all, I could write in my own voice.

Comic-Con is so much fun.

Dublin people think they are the center of the world and the center of Ireland. And they dont realize that people have to leave Ireland to get work and they look down on people who do.

The obvious is always least understood.

You've got to enjoy time with your family and friends, and if you're involved in sports franchises, those peak moments in playoff games. You have to enjoy life.

I love dark chocolate, but I will have a piece just occasionally.

A lot of cop shows, because they have the restraints of having a new case every episode, the victims often become these kind of nameless, faceless plot points, and as an audience we don't feel anything for those people.

I've always loved to paint - I was studying to do an art degree when I was approached to become a model - and I've being doing some design work as well. I also love just having a quiet time, sitting in my little library at home in Brooklyn and reading or watching documentaries or listening to music.

Listen to hear and watch to see.

Our artillery has really been sensational. For once we have enough of something and at the right time. Officers tell me they actually have more guns than they know what to do with.

Happiness is a way of travel not a destination.

There's nothing I hate more than gritty, linty, mysterious pocket schmutz in the cap of my lip moisturizer - or, even worse, on the applicator itself. I shudder at the thought.

I think that with the success of, like, VH1's 'Behind The Music' and stuff like that, the fact that it's so successful, it's clear that people are interested in rock lives.

At the core of all well-founded belief lies belief that is unfounded.

My dad's my best mate, and he always will be.

It is good to follow one's own bent, so long as it leads upward.

Some infinities are bigger than other infinities.