The number one organ of ridicule, nowadays, is the newspaper. If you open the newspaper any day of the week, it's full of people who've messed up their lives. They've slept with the wrong person, taken the wrong substance, passed the wrong piece of legislation -- whatever it is, and then are fit for ridicule. In other words, they have failed. And they are described as "losers." Now, is there any alternative to this? I think the Western tradition shows us one glorious alternative, which is tragedy.

Acting is not about being someone different. It's finding the similarity in what is apparently different, then finding myself in there.

The things that we love tell us what we are.

The meat processing industry must balance efficiency with sustainability—our future depends on it.

The Internet is becoming the town square for the global village of tomorrow.

我认为建筑应该是柔软和轻盈的。

Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all four corners.

The best hedge against low oil prices is low breakeven costs.