"It's a lot easier having a girlfriend in a band than if you were going out with someone that lived in London."

“I started going to castings a few years ago when people didn't know who I was. People forget about [that time] because they've seen my career - the path that it's had in the last couple years.”

“The actuality of thought is life.”

“Too often we forget that genius, too, depends upon the data within its reach, that even Archimedes could not have devised Edison's inventions.”

Source : Ernest Dimnet (1954). “The Art of Thinking”, p.113, Prabhat Prakashan

“I take a situation, analyse it, break it down, put it in the form I want it to be in, and then I toss it away. Let somebody else go deal with it.”

“I lead two totally separate lives. There are times when I have to slip into rock star mode.”

Source : "Patton Oswalt Was Once a Young Adult, Has Aged, Reflects". Interview with Aaron Hills, www.villagevoice.com. December 7, 2011.

“Leading means running fast enough to keep ahead of your people.”

Source : S. M. Stirling (2008). “The Sunrise Lands: A Novel of the Change”, p.66, Penguin

“We had only snacks last time, I think it was OK for a day time menu. But this time it will be late night when people gather so we should add some proper meals.”

“None of us is guaranteed against failure or corruption of any kind; witness what's going on in the world in this moment, the follies of human nature and the failures of human nature.”