Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!

There are lots of artists in the world. But there's only one you. And the only person who has your point of view is you. If you decide not to make things, all you've done is deprive the world of all the stuff that only you could have brought to it.

Human beings do not relate to written words in the same way that they will relate to spoken words. They do not relate to music in the same way that they do to pictures. It's all different parts of our head, different parts of our minds processing this.

If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

We do what we do, because of who we are. If we did otherwise, we would not be ourselves.

You could fire a machine gun randomly through the pages of Lord of the Rings and never hit any women.