Winning the prize wasn't half as exciting as doing the work itself.
A Southern accent is not a club in my bag.
When you're dealing with serious subjects, there is a pressure to be absolutely sure that you know what you're doing.
Congratulations, Congress! 77% disapproval rating! You may be about to become the English language's most offensive C-word.
The only thing I'm nervous about is talking to guests like human beings, because all of my interviews so far have been attacking people. I have a genuine concern about sitting across from an actor whose movies I obviously haven't seen.
You're sonically racist, Americans. You think we all sound the same, whereas I have definitely a mongrel accent.
I think Americans still can't help but respond to the natural authority of this voice. Deep down they long to be told what to do by a British accent. That's why so many infomercials have British people.
It is true that writers often owe their most inspired thoughts, their most extraordinary phrases, to their generous typesetters, who assist their flights of fancy with so-called typographical errors.
If we're growing, we're always going to be out of our comfort zone.
Just getting totally absorbed in that and therefore when I came back around to [Buckminster Fuller] and found that much of it was made up, I realized that nevertheless, it really was crucial, crucial for how he understood himself, I believe, and certainly crucial for how anyone else ever engaged in his ideas and therefore as a starting point, how can we engage in his ideas today, but with a remove of knowing that it is a myth and being able to navigate it in that sort of level, at that level of reading him as a story.
[The] pain is temporary. It may last a minute, an hour, a day, or a year, but eventually it subsides. And when it does, something else takes its place, and that thing might be called a greater space for happiness. . . Each time we overcome pain, I believe that we grow.