"It's the sad thing about entertainment, it's not always about who is the best."

“The skill of writing is to create a context in which other people can think.”

“In a world of plenty, no one, not a single person, should go hungry. But almost 1 billion still do not have enough to eat. I want to see an end to hunger everywhere within my lifetime.”

“Thirty-five is half a life. I can't lose the other half. I've lost so much living as a shadow of a person.”

“People are self-absorbed. I think that the mass ability of communication now probably allows individuals to meet more self-absorbed individuals. It has certainly changed the way that people meet.”

“My life has been regulated by insomnia.”

“Home, the spot of earth supremely blest, A dearer, sweeter spot than all the rest.”

“Nobody has milked one performance better than me - and I'm damned proud of it.”

“Finding is losing something else. I think about, perhaps even mourn, what I lost to find this”