"I heard a definition once: Happiness is health and a short memory! I wish I'd invented it, because it is very true."

“I think we need to get rid of is improving our minds and our mental health. You know, when when you suffer from depression, you go this is something that I have and I can work on it, you know? I often think of depression, though, as more of a - as more of a symptom than a cause.”

“I enter myself in races. I did a triathlon, and I have done a marathon a couple of times.”

Source : "Balanced?". Interview with Stevie Brown, www.theguardian.com. April 14, 2006.

“The things that affect you most deeply - the things that will destroy you if you don't sing about them - are the things that you often end up singing about. It's really just about saying those things that everybody thinks but no one will say and making a connection by uncovering these diamonds that are inside of all of us that no one wants to tell each other about.”

“There is a very real and critical danger that unrestrained public discussion of cryptologic matters will seriously damage the ability of this government to conduct signals intelligence and the ability of this government to carry out its mission of protecting national security information from hostile exploitation.”

“Now comes the second machine age. Computers and other digital advances are doing for mental power-the ability to use our brains to understand and shape our environments-what the steam engine and its descendants did for muscle power.”

Source : "The Second Machine Age: Work, Progress, and Prosperity in a Time of Brilliant Technologies". Book by Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee, 2014.

“Studio press agents make up anything they want to, and reporters go along with it. One flack created the legend that I had been blown up in an air crash during the war, and my face had to be put back together by way of plastic surgery. If it is a 'bionic face,' why didn't they do a better job of it?”

“Every veil secretly desires to be lifted, except the veil of Hypocrisy.”

“First and foremost, you have to make the movie for yourself. And that's not to say, to hell with everyone else, but what else have you got to go on but your own taste and judgment?”