You're trying to find new ideas in people. I always think to myself, what question I am least comfortable asking the person? And then I make sure I a….

I like the idea of someone else’s love safely sealed in a song or a book..

Like any corporation, I have the benefit of the brainpower of everyone who is working for me. It all ends up being my work, the corporate me, but eve….

It is always the case with the best work, that it is misrepresented, and disparaged at first, for it takes a curiously long time for new ideas to bec….

I don't champion the idea of being in a Hollywood movie. I never had fun in one of them.

Music has always been something I wanted to do. I think just the idea of performing and entertaining and being in the studio is really what I wanted ….

Our ancestors who changed the world did so through new ideas which came to them as they acted..

I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness..

How sweetly he came to her, she thought. Even with his bulk and power, he came to her...sweetly..

You get ideas from other people all the time..

I always listen to you. Except when I don't..

I'm staggered by the question of what it's like to be a multimilionaire. I always have to remind myself that I am..

Not all. Some of them he probably lectured to death..

He sure put things into words good..

You can find out how to do something and then do it or do something and then find out what you did..

I'm just content with myself, happy with myself..

God, harden me against myself!.

it's wrong to be right; it's right to be wrong..

A new and valid idea is worth more than a regiment and fewer men can furnish the former than command the latter..

I just love the idea that people disappear into the story for a while. You grab a book, and you want to get back to it, and your life becomes a bit o….

The idea of cultural relativism is nothing but an excuse to violate human rights..