I grew up all around the world, and when I settled in a suburb in America, I didn't have any idea what I was supposed to wear.

My father had wanted to name me for Dylan Thomas. He had seen him speak on one of those drunken poetry tours he did.

I kind of grew up on the East Coast, lived in New York for a while, then moved to L.A. So I'm not a New Yorker at all, but I'm much happier in New York; I've always liked it better.

My best moment of 2011 would definitely be the birth of my daughter six weeks ago, on September 25.

Grief can kill a person emotionally and physically. If not counteracted with God’s strength and power, our personal weakness may debilitate us.

I'm not an alcoholic, I am freedom fighter against the teetotal taliban.

I was raised with a sense of democratic vistas and egalitarianism.

Apelles used to paint a good housewife on a snail, to import that she home-keeping.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

Life's pretty good, and why wouldn't it be? I'm a pirate, after all.

Beauty is a question of optics. All sight is illusion.

The higher our position the more modestly we should behave.

Sometimes I have to remind myself, that on my worst day I live like somebody on their greatest

You know, sometimes I swear the whole universe runs on irony.