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You know someone is your favorite person when you've done a day of press, listened to yourself ad nauseam, listened to them tell every story, and when it ends, it's like, 'Are we going to eat something?'

The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.

Nessuna cosa si può amare nè odiare, se prima no si ha cognition di quella. (No thing you can love or hate, if you don't know it before.)

For a game, you don’t need a teacher.

There come times when I have nothing more to tell God. If I were to continue to pray in words, I would have to repeat what I have already said. At such times it is wonderful to say to God, "May I be in Thy presence, Lord? I have nothing more to say to Thee, but I do love to be in Thy presence."

I always had a superstitious fear of setting up a too well-designed writing place and then finding that the writing had absconded.

So many people seem to prefer my silver-screenings of movie stars to the rest of my work. It must be the subject matter that attracts them, because my death and violence paintings are just as good.

Health is the vital principle of bliss.

It wasn't until I stood in my truth and told everybody that I had $250,000 in credit card debt. At that point, everything turned around for me. I had to reveal the truth about what I didn't have, more than pretend about what I did. That was interesting.

If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy.

I don't want to be one of those guys where I go there and wait a long time before I become a starter.

I stand second to none in condemning sexual harassment of women.

The flaw in, say, austerity, is that its success is predicated on the relative exactitude of math rather than the shifting, liquid imperfection of people's lives.

Modelling isn't something I'm doing to prove people wrong. It's something I'm doing because it's what I want to do.

In the field of astronomy in the mid-'60s, quasars were very sexy objects - gigantic, star-like masses about which little was known. I was a graduate research student at Cambridge working towards my Ph.D. and chose quasars as the subject for my thesis. Part of my project involved surveying the sky for them using a radio telescope.

I've always joked that my food memoirs will be titled 'Brutta ma Buona,' the phrase Italians use to describe food that's delicious but rustic-looking at best: ugly but good.

One of the main reasons for market failure in the U.S. healthcare industry is because we are uninformed consumers.

Baby, black promoters oppressed me before white promoters ever got hold of me. Don't talk skin to me.

Educate and inform the whole mass of the people... They are the only sure reliance for the preservation of our liberty.

My English teachers gave me a copy of Atwood's 'The Handmaid's Tale' when I left high school, which has always been very special to me - it was the novel that introduced me to dystopian fiction. I'm also influenced by Edgar Allan Poe, Dickens, John Wyndham and Middle English dream-visions.