For the most part, people use God as Santa Claus.

I like words. Words are places, rooms, distant airs, thin and tropical. They make us feel and imagine we are more than our bodies.

You never know when you're making a memory.

It's OK to not be political unless your country is falling apart.

I get weary of reading about rebirths because we're all growing all the time and it diminishes the life you've lived if you say 'I'm a new person.

In my opinion, the Republican Party is the last on the list to care about the needs of old people and children and poor people.

I really enjoy creating music onstage, to participate in making music live.

There is no fear before and no fear after. We give our best.

My worst job was working in the laundry of a nursing home.

You can't break the rules until you know how to play the game.

I think we are dying in America, I think our democracy is over.

The most powerful relationship you will ever have is the relationship with yourself.

State first, subject second, statesman last.

no human culture is inaccessible to someone who makes the effort to understand, to learn, to inhabit another world.

I absolutely adore classic crime and read a huge amount as a teen - Agatha Christie, Dorothy L. Sayers, Sherlock Holmes, Josephine Tey, and many more.

Government . . . is a reflection of us. It is up to us to earn a better reflection.

What a strange vanity painting is; it attracts admiration by resembling the original, we do not admire.

Hate is a cancer that spreads one cell at a time.

I do not murmur, even if my heart break.

Love consists of this: two solitudes that meet, protect and great each other.

Nuclear weapons and other weapons are the means to protect our sovereignty and legitimate interests, not the means to behave aggressively or to fulfil some non-existent imperial ambitions.