I always think it's interesting to dig a little bit deeper every time you go to someplace that seems like a revelation or a strong connection to an emotional truth.

I had some dreams, they were clouds in my coffee.

My look was even more solidified when I started singing in Greenwich Village with my sister Lucy. We wore matching dresses as the Simon Sisters.

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

A really strong woman accepts the war she went through and is ennobled by her scars.

The sound of birds stops the noise in my mind.

Everyone has problems, and learning to share them is essential. Hiding pain requires an enormous amount of energy; sharing it is liberating.

You know when you take the paint off an old canvas and you discover that something's been painted underneath it? That's what I feel like - that part of the old is coming through the new.

I've learned that nobody's perfect, and I don't expect myself to be perfect anymore.

Life is a dream even in its most painful moments, it's a dream that we can dance to.

My scar is beautiful. It looks like an arrow.

Love is the light of life, Happiness is the delight of life.

Trust me. You’re a constant riddle with an ever-changing solution." ~ FBI Special Agent Clive Poole to Maggie Mae Castro

Life, like classical music, is full of difficult passages that are conquered as much through endurance and determination as through any particular skill.

I think in China, they know you have to have a solid nationwide plan. It does not help to have a football hotspot in the north or the south.

To be really sorry for one's errors is like opening the door of Heaven.

Most beautiful dumb girls think they are smart and get away with it, because other people, on the whole, aren't much smarter.

I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.

What I'm doing is making an action-adventure film of mythic proportions.

It became much more complicated politically to work with psychedelics because of the unsupervised experimentation with psychedelics, particularly among young people.

We've got a lot of experience of not having any experience