I couldn't kill a fly.

I love young men, lots of them, your ancient masculine double standard.

I couldn't kill a fly.

I decided law was the exact opposite of sex; even when it was good, it was lousy.

I am smart.

One of the great things that I loved about doing solo - which I ended up doing because I was too shy to ever try out for bands back in the day - I could sit there with a list of songs and 'paint away' for the show.

The heart may think it knows better the senses know that absence blots people out. We really have no absent friends. The friend becomes a traitor by breaking however unwillingly or sadly out of our own zone a hard judgment is passed on him for all the pleas of the heart.

I like to turn things upside down, to watch pictures and situations from another perspective.

When you have walked through the hell of your negative thoughts and survived, no pain on this earth will ever again worry you.

I have found that among its other benefits, giving liberates the soul of the giver.

Bond is the longest-running franchise ever and there's a reason for that: they are action movies but they are also touched by current events without being political or too serious.

I want to get old gracefully. I want to have good posture, I want to be healthy and be an example to my children.

It is not true that people are naturally equal for no two people can be together for even a half an hour without one acquiring an evident superiority over the other.

'The Means' is about power. I have access to political insiders who helped me write a portrait of the real day-to-day in politics, which turned out to be crazier than Wall Street.

I really like Rosamund Pike very much.

The sentiment of those suggesting the Olympics and Paralympics be combined is no doubt well intentioned. But it also echoes the myth that disabled people want to be other than what we are - that we'd like nothing more than to be 'allowed in' with the able-bodied competitors.

You miss 100% of the shots that you don't take. Still wondering whether it is worth giving a shot at your dreams?

You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.

There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions of galaxies and now to realising even that isn't all there is.

In a time of transition for journalism all around the world, it's reassuring to know that some of the old ways endure.

One of the things being in politics has taught me is that men are not a reasoned or reasonable sex.

I can do all the things.

Sometimes a person has to be dead a while before people can appreciate what they did when they were alive.

What I thought at the moment was the worst thing that could happen was absolutely the biggest gift I've received.

When I think about myself as a writer, for sure I am a science fiction writer. The tools of extrapolation, the tools of anticipating the future - those are science fictional questions.

Upon the subjects of which I have treated, I have spoken as I have thought. I may be wrong in regard to any or all of them; but, holding it a sound maxim that it is better only sometimes to be right than at all times to be wrong, so soon as I discover my opinions to be erroneous, I shall be ready to renounce them.

Usually, at the end of a film it's like I've finally gotten to know this person completely, and then we're done. That actually happened on the set of 'Twilight,' and then it happened again on 'New Moon.' Each time my character Bella became a different person, and I got to know that person and take her to the next level.