Quotes About Author

Rock and Roll has certainly tried to take its toll on me. I'd rather not talk about my past excesses here, although some hardcore rockers might argue that those excesses were responsible for some great records, but I know which side I came out on.

I was really fascinated by politics. It always has been part of my view that politics really is a calling or you wouldn't go into it, because it's demanding and potentially has a toll on you and your family.

Doing comedy takes much lesser toll on you as a person. The overall exertion is not as much as a serious film like 'Pink.'

GamerGate has had an almost indescribable toll on my family.

Chechnya forms the bookends to Tolstoy's career. He began writing his first novel, 'Childhood,' while in Starogladovskaya in Northern Chechnya, and his final novel, 'Hadji Murad,' is set in the Russo-Chechen War of the 19th century.

When you started looking at the life of Tolstoy, there was so much passion and anger and drama surrounding him.

I always really loved Russian literature, and I think Tolstoy's writing is full of a sense of melancholy and humanity, so it seems really modern.

I'm not going to get into the ring with Tolstoy.

The idea of a book that can make a change to your life, that can affect your perspective, is a beautiful and great ambition: one that Seneca, Nietzsche and Tolstoy would have sympathised with.

This is not Tolstoy. I don't want to know what critics and professors think of what I'm writing. It might hurt my feelings.

I love Tom Ford. I love Harrison Ford, too.

We are not for disarming people. When you have an epidemic it's a public health issue, a safety issue.

Systemic corruption, leaving no means of redress or civic appeal, drives citizens to extremes.

This is a conjuring trick, enabling Fitzgerald to have it both ways. The insufficiency of language becomes, in his hands, not a tragedy of human inarticulacy, but a romance of possibility.

At home I'm clean. Like it never happened. Tell them you saw me. Tell them...you saw me.

My self-confidence can be measured out in teaspoons mixed into my poetry, and it still always tastes funny in my mouth.

I promise to tidy up before company arrives, wouldn't want my socks and daydreams all over the carpet

One of the great solaces of my life is that I no longer need to wonder whether I'll have children.

I realize I don't envy them exactly; I envy a hybrid monster with some qualities of each woman but all of neither—a monster I dreamt up specifically to envy.

You realise you're going to owe me dinner after this, right?" "How does McDonald's sound?" "Inadequate.

The episodes all blend together for me, so I don't remember. I can't even remember what I had for breakfast this morning. I always feel I must be such a disappointment to them.

I gave up on cussing - I'd run out of words filthy enough - and just started praying.

He rolled the syllables of my name out of his mouth as if they were at once contemptible and marvelous.

Victoria wasn't beautiful, but a stern regularity of feature made her uncompromisingly handsome.