LOL has turned into something you type when you have nothing better to add into a conversation.

I swim in a pool of my own neurosis. I carry love, grief deeply, like an Irishman.

I think that the British government has long been on the record saying global warming is a very serious issue and we need to do something about it. I think what they did was they took their own economic experts and they said, "This time, let's try to put together a document that will really convince the rest of the world of a position that we've been holding for a while."

Many kids turn to selling drugs. It's not a good career choice, but they see it as a way to get money.

I often sit back and think, I wish I'd done that, and find out later that I already have.

If you're an economist and you're asked to predict what something is going to be like 50 years from now? It's going to be guesswork.

I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.