We urgently need a major programme of investment in renewable energy generation to tackle climate change.

Man is only miserable so far as he thinks himself so.

My dad and I used to shoot little one-stop animations on an old 8mm film camera when I was no more than 7 or 8, and when he was away at work, I would keep shooting nonsensical, short animated films using 'Star Wars' figures or Smurfs - depended what the narrative was.

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

Being second generation in Hollywood is complicated: Success is expected, and yet the track record of the second generation is not great. Only a small group of us, like Jane Fonda, have succeeded.

Divorce was miserable, as it always is, and we divorce for the same reasons we marry.

Liberal democratic states can't remain globally competitive.

Those of my generation who grew up in the midst of the Cold War had a very, very strong awareness and very much were sort of influenced by the demonization of the Soviet Union, whether that was through the Cuban Missile Crisis or duck-and-cover, or any of those things that so affected us then.

What it is saying is that someone who was a world champion and who takes care of himself with a 17-year rest and applies the proper training techniques and perseverance could be successful.

Federal spending is atrocious.

It's about ladies, as usual. I'm telling the ladies I got the right temperature to keep them warm.

Secret families are really the bedrock issue of Western literature.

I'm not frightened of appearing vulnerable.

As an assistant operations officer for a helicopter task force in Iraq, I saw my fellow Guardsmen and soldiers risk life and limb to maintain diesel fuel supply lines.

In every generation, there are quite firm rules on how to behave when you are crazy.

I do not think of literature as something confessional or therapeutic. I make sentences in order to be precise about experiences and things. I am urged by many things and no things in particular.

In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.

I learned that I'm really good with perseverance. I'm stronger than I thought I was inside. I also learned that I don't give up easily and that I trust and believe that things are going to be OK.

I'm not desperate to sign, like, a record deal. I'm very hungry, but I'm just not desperate for it.

Science and literature are both ways to ask questions about why we're here.