“The greatest enemy of knowledge is not ignorance, it is the illusion of knowledge.”

“A wonderful thing about a book, in contrast to a computer screen, is that you can take it to bed with you.”

“Freedom means the opportunity to be what we never thought we would be.”

“When we pick up the newspaper at breakfast, we expect - we even demand - that it brings us momentous events since the night before...We expect our two-week vacations to be romantic, exotic, cheap, ...”

“A sign of celebrity is that his name is often worth more than his services.”

“The celebrity is a person who is known for his well-knownness.”

“We are all ordinary. We are all boring. We are all spectacular. We are all shy. We are all bold. We are all heroes. We are all helpless. It just depends on the day.”

“Great heroes need great sorrows and burdens, or half their greatness goes unnoticed. It is all part of the fairy tale.”

“I used to hold you as my everything,And so I built my castles in your lands,But you proved to me your inadequacies,With this, how will my castles stand?”

“Love is not a maybe thing, you know when you love someone.”

“Boys are like purses. You're always gonna have that one boy that you're always comfortable with and you know you'll always kind of like. That's your purse that you wear everywhere. Then you have th...”

“On that same tour we ran into a band at Aylesbury Friars, a biggish venue in Oxfordshire, England. They were a four-piece from Ireland called U2. They seemed like nice fellows and they sounded pret...”