Glamour is beyond beauty and beyond age. It's like sex appeal.
We live in a time where it's more surprising if people are actually together than if they're having affairs.
"The Theory of Everything" is an extraordinary story because [Jane Hawing] was incredibly religious and [Stephen Hawking] was an atheist, so you have this conflict both on a domestic level between a couple in a difficult situation but also this bigger conflict of science versus religion, so it's a really fascinating project.
I think [Charles] Dickens was an extrovert and Nelly [Ternan] an introvert, and I think that Nelly saw beyond the fame and adulation and she actually loved Dickens essentially for who he was. So I think he felt like she was someone he could be himself with.
I cannot stand beer. But I love wine.
Those moments when you don't feel self-conscious, when you escape that, are when you produce something meaningful.
I was into Virginia Woolf and James Joyce [at university] and I think we all thought that [Charles] Dickens wasn't that cool.
Journalism, spooked by rumors of its own obsolescence, has stopped believing in itself. Groans of doom alternate with panicked happy talk.
I'm pleased to offer analysis of public policy and politics to the millions of Americans who get their news from Fox.
You will always move toward anyone who increases you and away from anyone who makes you less.
Today we can see many different forms of Buddhism, such as Zen and Theravada Buddhism. All these different aspects are practices of Buddha's teachings, and all are equally precious; they are just different presentations.