And Quotes

Men of the present time testify of heaven and hell, and have never seen either.

... love and fear increase together with a precision almost mathematical: the greater the love is then the greater the fear is.

I really love the traditional aspects of Judaism. My wife is born and raised a Catholic and I enjoy celebrating those rituals as well. I am very spiritual but not in any way religious, no.

It's hard to convince people when you haven't done anything that the things you're working on are worthy of spending their time and money on: like, "Oh man, I write really great songs, I promise!"

The time for reminiscing is after rugby. Then you can sit down and get fat.

I don't ever land on an album title until I know exactly what's going on the record, because you never know until it's all said and done.

I come from a very illustrious line of divorces. We love to get divorced in my family. My mother and father have been married four times each - eight ceremonies with the best of intentions.

I'm not a gamer. But I am very aware of the escapism of drugs. In my mind those kind of do the same thing. They dull us to the aches and pains of our status quo.

I always wished to be a better planner. It seems more elegant, while my trial and error process is more akin to someone scratching an awful case of poison oak.

My family fight, that's the way it is. We're not common as muck or anything but we do have a little fight now and then.

In the time of gods and monsters, what is the worth of a man?

The only bitterness I had is: Where is the conversation on gender? That's been going on since there have been men and women, and still we're not hearing about what they're going through.

I don't think that any 'ism' is higher than literature or art. So I'm a formalist. I greatly honor and respect the form of a work.

Love gives life purpose and meaning.

[The notion of separating church and state with such policies as disallowing prayer in public schools] is a deception from Satan.

The best athletes in any sport take stretching very seriously before and after matches. Stretching is instrumental in any athlete's physical success.

Stretching, which I do for five to 10 minutes before and after a match, is so important in general when it comes to prolonging your career and staying injury-free.

If you analyze the production of coca in Colombia, you will realize that it is like economic cycles. It goes up and down, it goes up and down depending on the circumstances.

I think that nobody - certainly in this world - can say that they don't have the human denial element about them or fear or whatever it is as juxtaposed with faith and hope and freedom and love.

We were created to be woman and man and make kids.

The Bible doesn't sugarcoat pain and suffering; it gives you something to move past it.

I wrote for Roseanne. I wrote her stand-up act with her. I wrote with Tom Arnold. There was a period when I was working with them pretty steadily. But I would take brief gigs here and there.

Fighting cancer is my mission right now. The research and development of finding cures for this nasty disease is my passion.

In the interweave of mind and body, dance is a mode that allows people to work through difficulties, anticipate the future, recollect the past, and confront the present.

A wedding invitation is sent by people who have been saying, "Do we have to ask them?" to people whose first response is, "How much do you think we have to spend on them?

Surrender is a positive, healthy state. Being a surrendered person does not mean one is beaten down and so hopeless he or she has "given up." It's quite the contrary.

For we lose not only by death, but also by leaving and being left, by changing and letting go and moving on.

[On writing her first poem at age eight:] An ode to my dead mother and father, who were both alive and pretty pissed off.

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

Antiquity was perhaps created to provide professors with their bread and butter.

I just sat down and thought, I'm going to write a song today, I'm going to give it a try. So I just stuck it on a tape like everything else. That was just another song.

And Ive had vocal training on and off for years.

We had a happy marriage because we were together all the time. We were friends as well as husband and wife. We just had a good time.

Our sport is really European, so you get to show off what you do to your friends and family and they can actually follow along.

Fundamentally women and men are different.

In my early career, I look at that time as a series of trial and error and learning as I go.

I get twitchy if I don't pick up a guitar or sit at the piano every now and then... I have to do it; I don't have a choice.

No one is moral among the god-controlled puppets of the _Iliad_. Good and evil do not exist.

Abstract words are ancient coins whose concrete images in the give and take of talk have worn away with use.

All that is contrary to love and peace is of the Fiend and of his part.

There are certain times you want to be here and there are certain times you want to just go. And when you go, it's usually so exhausting you have to check into a hospital when you come home!

If life is a performance, and I am not an actor, am I supposed to lie down and die?

Some of the best work done to combat the Republicans has been wit and humor.

People know the difference between good and evil in their hearts-if they search them. Religions twist good and evil. Their differences are the kind that need to be taught because they aren't natural.

Literature has done great work for feminism - writing and reading are a practice of empathy - and great literature will continue to do so.

I'd feel a little bit dead inside, if I didn't have dancing. It's such a way of expression and exercise and life and love. You laugh, when you're being corny and dorky-dancing. It's everything.

I definitely am the kind of person that fluctuates up and down. I work really hard for a certain project and then I'm like, 'Oh, I'm done.'

I always tweet about where we're at. Since I'm performing at amphitheaters, I'll try to run up and down the stairs and across the field.

People don't change. There are two kinds of people in the world: winners and losers. Black and white. I don't know where gray fits in, or if you can even live in that shade.

[Two Evil Eyes] was shot in Pittsburgh, and that's where I was born and raised, so it was really nice to be a part of Pittsburgh film culture.