As long as you're not 'gross full, '" Raj said. "That's when you're so full that it's hard to breathe because your stomach is pushing up into your lung region.

You just...you don't take crap from anyone. But not in the fake, rebellious way that most kids do it, like they got something to prove. You're real, and people respect you a lot for that.

Humans are...extraordinary. It's a shame that we often forget that, and that we treat each other as anything less than the masterpieces we are.

The Communist regime didn't consider this to be a shining moment in history and assigned no heroism to it. They classified it as merely an accident.

Go down any road far enough and you'll come to a slaughterhouse, but keep going and you'll reach the sea.

All artists are of necessity in some measure contemplative.

Of all things there remains to me only honor and life which is safe.

An income tax form is like a laundry list - either way you lose your shirt.

I'll get there, if I leave everything but my bones behind," said Sam. "And I'll carry Mr. Frodo up myself, if it breaks my back and heart.

I love being a portraitist.

It is the nature of stone to be satisfied. It is the nature of water to want to be somewhere else.

If you sent me to cover a pie-baking contest on Mother's Day, I'm going to ask dear old Mom why she used artificial sweetener or stole the apples!

Our culture needs to find a robust image of female success that is first, not male, and second, not a white woman on the phone, holding a crying baby.