A genius can never expect to have a good time anywhere, if he is a genuine article, but America is about the last place in which life will be endurable at all for an inspired writer of any kind. – Samuel Butler
The world is not going into concentric blocs of power. It is actually going into a diffusion of power with more centres of decision-making than ever in human civilisation. That requires you to place yourself in far more hubs of power than ever before. – William Hague
The movies I watch and the music I listen to and the books I read – those are important to me. Its very important to me, and I dont know what I would do without those things. – Joseph Gordon-Levitt
