The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences.

The composing room has an unlimited supply of periods available to terminate short, simple sentences.

I'm not terribly fond of soapboxes.

A lot of women say they love being pregnant but I wasnt such a big fan.

Grief is exhausting.

The two favorite episodes of 'Lost' that Adam and I wrote were 'Dave,' which was where Hurley has an imaginary friend, and 'Trisha Tanaka is Dead,' where Hurley finds a van and starts it.

I think I've only kissed a woman on screen only once or twice before in my whole career.

The music of the Gypsies belongs in the sphere of improvisation rather than in any other, without which it would have no power to exist.

It's important to hold something back, though, because quite frankly my personal life is pretty dull and I don't want to bore people with it.

I don't have a lot to share with other men. My heart sinks when I get into a taxi and someone starts talking to me about football.

In high school, theater was all I ever wanted to do. I didn't see that I was going to set it aside for so many years and take a right turn into television. Of course, wanting to do theater is something you hear a lot from actors. I think I've been embarrassed to be in that big cliche.

Boys are lacking in female skills, dropping out of schools and ending up in jails and unemployed because they lack these skills.

Grace tried is better than grace, and more than grace; it is glory in its infancy.

My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.

We owe it to the victims of the suicide bombers who struck London on 7 July 2005 to find out how the attacks happened and to learn the lessons that will spare lives in the future.

When playing a role, I would feel more comfortable, as you're given a prescribed way of behaving. So, both Facebook and theatre provide contrived settings that provide the illusion of social interaction.

I never plot out my novels in terms of the tone of the book. Hopefully, once a story is begun it reveals itself.

I always wanted to write a raccoon story. I don't know why. It's not like I want to own a raccoon or anything like that. I'm just fascinated by them.

Computers and computing are all around us. Some computing is highly visible, like your laptop. But this is only part of a computing iceberg. A lot more lies hidden below the surface. We don't see and usually don't think about the computers inside appliances, cars, airplanes, cameras, smartphones, GPS navigators and games.

By definition, intelligence deals with the unclear, the unknown, the deliberately hidden. What the enemies of the United States hope to deny we work to reveal.

I have great respect for Sandra Day O'Connor. She has broken so many barriers for women in the law, and was a master negotiator and pragmatist in her days on the Supreme Court.

Since I came an adult - for more than 45 years - Marcus Aurelius has been my great idol.

When I exercise, I need to connect to myself and see how I'm feeling at the moment because my mood is constantly changing.

In the tail above the giant resonance, you can get not just one neutron emitted but two, three, four or five, and so there are a lot of things one can measure, looking at the competition with the emission of neutrons and protons and so on.

As the eagle was killed by the arrow winged with his own feather, so the hand of the world is wounded by its own skill.

Man is nature's sole mistake.