I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I wasn't always this introverted.

I'd like to be rich. I'd like a lot of money to put into my physicals and to buy food for all my friends.

Have you seen the roses? There's a whole lot of colours.

The only work I've done the last two years is interviews. I'm very good at it.

Living in Cambridge, with nature and everything, it's so clean.

I'm disappearing, avoiding most things.

I don't really read a lot. Maybe I should.

I've just had an operation, but nothing too serious.

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

If I'd stayed at college I would have become a teacher.

It's always been too slow for me. Playing. The pace of things. I'm a fast sprinter. The trouble was, after playing in the group for a few months, I couldn't reach that point.

Getting used to the studio and everything was fun, we freaked about alot. I was working very hard then.

I like songs that are simple.

When we parted I had written everything for the group. My leaving sort of evened things out within the group.

I do tend to take lines from other lines I like, and then write around them.

I don't think I'm easy to talk about. I've got a very irregular head. And I'm not anything that you think I am anyway.

I never felt so close to a guitar as that silver one with mirrors that I used on stage all the time.

I think young people should have a lot of fun. But I never seem to have any.

Fairy-tales are nice.

A lot of people want to make films and do photography and things, but I'm quite happy doing what I'm doing.

I think it's good if a song has more than one meaning. Maybe that kind of song can reach far more people.

I'm full of dust and guitars.

I'm sorry I can't speak very coherently.

When the Georgian army started this assault against the sleeping city of Tskhinvali, the Georgian peacekeepers, serving in one contingent with their Russian friends, joined the army and started killing the Russian comrades in arms.

I asked a Burmese why women, after centuries of following their men, now walk ahead. He said there were many unexploded land mines since the war.

I can inhabit any character in a way that is difficult to do successfully in a contemporary novel.

I just love the weather. I live on Miami Beach, which is all boutique hotels and cocktails. I do sometimes go along to smart parties in my white suit, but I wouldn't really recognise any famous people if they were there because I'm not very good at star-spotting.

'Thou shalt not get found out' is not one of God's commandments; and no man can be saved by trying to keep it.

Early in my career, I decided not to do sequels. I know that children enjoy them, but I valued the feeling that this was the only time I would write about these characters. I felt it gave me an added incentive to do my best by them, to tell readers everything I knew, to hold nothing back.

It's so sad to see how few people in the Obama administration have any private sector experience.

I am personally quite liberal.

When we are busy at work and busy at home, an hour's walking every day becomes a real luxury. If done alone, the walk injects a period of meditation into the day, and if done in company, it allows space for some really good conversation.

I am a pet person. My dog actually lives in Georgia now. But I work with animal trainers and pets quite often. I also volunteer at different places like animal shelters. It's good to be around pets. They kind of put things into perspective. They're easygoing, loyal, and they seem to get it, even when humans don't.

If you have a pair of shoes that hurt, don't wear them. The ugliest thing that I think I've seen is a woman walk like her feet hurt. It's awful, so make sure your shoes fit.

It's very hard for me to say I'm sorry... but I do.

When I was 13, I thought I was pretty hot stuff because I knew BASIC programming, self-taught on the family's Commodore 64. One of my crowning accomplishments was writing a silly little program that showed a crudely-drawn Space Shuttle lifting off in a cloud of pixelated smoke.

A comprehended god is no god.

I feel like being into the beat of your own drum has become too prominent in the culture.

They say you don't want to meet your heroes, but those two guys, you do want to meet them, because they do not disappoint. Walken has this amazing sense of humor, and Pacino is like just a sweetheart of a guy.

I used to help Viv with the chords and melodies sometimes.

A well spent day brings happy sleep.

Later in July I'm going to be promoting and putting on a boxing show of amateur fighters from July 21st through the 28th where one hundred kids will be fighting and competing with each other to see who's going to be the best.

Sanctions are a sign of irritation; they are not the instrument of serious policies.

Cities may now bulldoze private citizens' homes, farms and small businesses to make way for shopping malls or other developments.

I don't generally listen to music while working, but sometimes music can help me get past minor writer's block.

Praise those of your critics for whom nothing is up to standard.

Because appearing to be fair is part of being fair, most mainstream news organizations discourage marching for causes, displaying political bumper stickers or giving cash to candidates.