I like to be a team player. All the projects I do are collaborations. And I want to solicit the opinions and help of other people. I'm not interested in being the one in charge.

I don't care if you hate me or love me, as long as I make you think.

With every breath, I'm deeper in you.

Catholicism is not a soothing religion. It's a painful religion. We're all gluttons for punishment.

I became an overachiever to get approval from the world.

I want to be like Gandhi, and Martin Luther King, and John Lennon... but I want to stay alive.

I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.

I always acted like a star long before I was one.

Better to live one year as a tiger, then a hundred as sheep.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

As much good as it does, social media can also encourage stupidity and degradation.

Be under the broad day light and act rightly

John McCain will pay hundreds of dollars for his own shoes. But we're the ones who have to pay for his flip-flops.

Keep out of Chancery. It's being ground to bits in a slow mill; it's being roasted at a slow fire; it's being stung to death by single bees; it's being drowned by drops; it's going mad by grains.

Xenophobia looks like becoming the mass ideology of the 20th-century fin-de-siecle.

Darkness will never take me... because I have you. Light of my life, Marissa. That's what you are." -Butch and Marissa

You have to pay a lot of attention to what's important, what's permanent, what's real.

So let the variety of your reality thrill you as you choose all the things you want.. get behind the good feelings of all your wants.

Isaiah rolled his eyes. "Good God. What a noble lot. You're all Spartacus, aren't you?

Books are a uniquely portable magic.

I also helped write the five-page statement of principles that Civic Forum issued in late November. That was the first public expression of what the new government wanted to do.