For there is never any way to go but in.
I used to think that prizes were damaging and divisive, until I got one. And now they seem sort of meaningful and real.
As you get older you feel you need to pay more attention to what is around you and relish it. I'm greedy for beauty.
If you ever see me in a social setting wearing any sort of sportswear, then you know I'm in crisis.
One of my great regrets, and I don't have many, is that I spent too long putting people's status and reputation ahead of their more important qualities. I learned far too late in life that a long list of letters after someone's name is no guarantee of compassion, kindness, humour, all the far more relevant stuff.
I would like to change everything, but obviously not everything. I've been incredibly fortunate. I guess everybody would do this, but I'd go back to my younger self and say, "Lighten up. Take it easy. Relax. Don't be so anxious about everything. Try to be in the day. Try to not have today stolen from you by anxiety about yesterday or tomorrow. "
I'm not a financial expert. The Robin Hood tax seems to me a very simple and beautiful idea. I don't see the problem.
I guess I get enough real life, in real life, so that's why I like things that are more extreme.
I'm not a very big fan of 'Slumdog Millionaire. ' I think it's visually brilliant. But I have problems with the story line. I find the storyline unconvincing.
There are some optimists who search eagerly for the skunk cabbage which in February sometimes pushes itself up through the ice, and who call it a sign of spring. I wish that I could feel that way about it, but I do not. The truth of the matter, to me, is simply that skunk cabbage blooms in the winter time.
En ningún momento de la historia, en ningún lugar del planeta, las religiones han servido para que los seres humanos se acerquen unos a los otros. Por el contrario, sólo han servido para separar, para quemar, para torturar. No creo en dios, no lo necesito y además soy buena persona.