I love films. I love music. I love poetry and stories. All of that I feel… I sort of get very excited and fed by.

The criminal justice system, like any system designed by human beings, clearly has its flaws.

I think the sensation of being moved by a piece of art is something that is really good for a person's soul.

I can be shy, but I’m not really. I try to be better at overcoming these things people have said.

I find it weird that people want to know about you.

I find it really hard to say anything coherent or interesting about the work I do.

I'm not tortured and neurasthenic - I'm really not.

Your one certainty in life, your power as a human being, is that you have a choice in every situation about what you do next and about how you take what has happened to you.

I am a typical Libran. I tend to see two sides of everything.

I reckon domesticated cats have a pretty good life.

It's fun to pretend you're good at something you know you wouldn't be good at in real life.

...silence is sometimes the most costly of commodities.

I tend to write, either myself, or I sometimes write with a co-writer, my friend that lives up the road. It's usually a relatively solitary thing, but I do like coming up with ideas.

Hawthorn, white and odorous with blossom, framing the quiet fields, and swaying flowers and grasses, and the hum of bees.

I was raised to be an independent woman, not the victim of anything.

Today we know with certainty that segregation is dead. The only question remaining is how costly will be the funeral.

How to get a seat at the table: 1. Be excellent. 2. Say a prayer. 3. Be available 4. Be you

Nothing divine dies. All good is eternally reproductive. The beauty of Nature re-forms itself in the mind, and not for barren contemplation, but for new creation.

The danger isn't that Big Brother may storm the castle gates. The danger is that Americans don't realize that he is already inside the castle walls.

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive?