Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.

I believe that words are strong, that they can overwhelm what we fear when fear seems more awful than life is good.

I chose fat and functional over slender and miserable.

There is so much pain in the world, and most of these people keep theirs secret, rolling through agonizing lives in invisible wheelchairs, dressed in invisible bodycasts.

I can tell you without question that there is one key element that makes the difference between those who succeed and those who do not. That element is action.

Being professional is just really clearly the way to go and helps you on the road to longevity.

There really is a kind of insane beauty around us all the time. It's just a question of learning to slow down, take a deep breath and meet the moment.

The nodding horror of whose shady brows Threats the forlorn and wandering passenger.

My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

Sometimes the song isn't strong enough to contain the fiction, because memories are fictions.

This is class war on an international scale, and power is in the hands of those who control the international economic system.

Lord Jesus, don't let me lie when I say that I love you.....and protect me, for today I could betray you.

It's difficult to find new solicitations, new expressions. But this is talking about filmmaking. Cinema.

Peace without energy may be only stagnation; and energy without peace may be but a form of panic.