"I loved fairy tales when I was a kid. Grimm. The grimmer the better. I loved gruesome gothic tales and, in that respect, I liked Bible stories, because to me they were very gothic."

"It's both rebellion and conformity that attack you with success."

"Words to me were magic. You could say a word and it could conjure up all kinds of images or feelings or a chilly sensation or whatever. It was amazing to me that words had this power."

"I think I've always been somebody, since the deaths of my father and brother, who was afraid to hope. So, I was more prepared for failure and for rejection than for success."

"I never lose sight of the fact that just being is fun."

"Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new."

"The once-unthinkable loss of the AAA rating will constitute a further hit to already fragile business and consumer confidence."

"Once we have a war there is only one thing to do. It must be won. For defeat brings worse things than any that can ever happen in war."