You are who you are when nobody's watching..

It is a cliche that most cliches are true, but then like most cliches, that cliche is untrue..

Thank you for your input; I can tell you are struggling towards being interesting..

Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will always hurt me. Bones mend and become actually stronger in the very place they were broken and w….

What's magical about [bears] is that they just spend one-hundred percent of every minute of every hour of every day being a bear. And a tree-frog spe….

Better sexy and racy Than sexist and racist.

People who can change and change again are so much more reliable and happier than those who can’t.

It's hard to be a friend to someone who's depressed, but it is one of the kindest, noblest, and best things you will ever do..

If ignorance is bliss, why aren't there more happy people in the world?.

We are not nouns, we are verbs. I am not a thing - an actor, a writer - I am a person who does things - I write, I act - and I never know what I'm go….

I don't need you to remind me of my age. I have a bladder to do that for me..

Nothing in this world is at it seems. Except, possibly, porridge..

It is the useless things that make life worth living and that make life dangerous too: wine, love, art, beauty. Without them life is safe, but not wo….

A cousin of mine who was a casualty surgeon in Manhattan tells me that he and his colleagues had a one-word nickname for bikers: Donors. Rather chill….

All the big words -virtue, justice, truth, ...- are dwarfed by the greatness of kindness.

A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation..

You can't just say there is a God because well, the world is beautiful. You have to account for bone cancer in children. You have to account for the ….

Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave..

The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most foolish failing ….

Books are no more threatened by Kindle than stairs by elevators..

I want you to know that you are not alone in your being alone..