"Shared interests are great, but not essential. Shared emotional states are what you're after."

“I think people like to be scared. I think people like tension and suspense in a movie.”

“Messi is God, as a person and even more as a player. I knew him when he was a boy and I’ve watched him grow. He deserves it all.”

“Cole should be scoring from those distances, but I'm not going to single him out.”

“Public schools were designed as the great equalizers of our society - the place where all children could have access to educational opportunities to make something of themselves in adulthood.”

“Once you're on the wheel, you don't come off.”

“Quiet people, people who arent given to emotional outbursts, people who are economic with words - theyre also fun to play, but you find yourself needing a laser precision in those roles. Otherwise you just sort of stand around, looking slightly brain-dead. You worry about being uninteresting.”

“The exact time of death, I think, is not something that matters so much at this moment for we will be reliving John Paul's life for many days and weeks and even years and decades and centuries to come.”

“I just feel passionately about a few things and particularly about helping artists get off the ground.”