"It's hard being the NBA's sex symbol, but somebody has to do it."

“Listening is a magnetic and strange thing, a creative force. The friends who listen to us are the ones we move toward. When we are listened to, it creates us, makes us unfold and expand.”

“Medical science in particular will get exponentially better, especially once computers will be powerful enough to digitally simulate entire human brains, meaning medical experiments that would normally take years can be digitally run taking only hours.”

Source : Interview with Ocean Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. December 31, 2013.

“When I hit a period of not being able to write music, I get up and walk away. It's pretty mean but it's true.”

“If we have one real strength, it's commitment and determination”

“Overnight, I went from being a completely private figure to a publicly humiliated one. I was Patient Zero.”

Source : "Monica’s Mission: Can the humiliated Lewinsky lead the charge against online harassment?" by Howard Kurtz, www.foxnews.com. October 22, 2014.

“You're beautiful, but you're somewhere else. That's okay. I can handle that. But we won't continue as friends, not just now. I like you as a lover, not a friend.”

Source : Luke Davies (2002). “Isabelle the Navigator”, p.97, Penguin

“Muse. Mu-se. It's a great thing, for someone to feel that they can draw inspiration from you. And I don't think it's necessarily a man 'taking' from a woman. It can go both ways, both can stimulate, excite.”

Source : Interview with Eva Wiseman, www.theguardian.com. October 2, 2010.

“But I'm concerned about security.”  My response to that is simple: “Security is for cadavers.”