I think that you can only be true to yourself. Nobody can live up to other people's expectations. You will always let them down. There will always be something they won't like about you.

Ask yourself: Have you been kind today? Make kindness your daily modus operandi and change your world.

The future hasn't happened yet and the past is gone. So I think the only moment we have is right here and now, and I try to make the best of those moments, the moments that I'm in.

There are two kinds of artists left: those who endorse Pepsi and those who simply won't.

I was brought up in a tenement house in a working district. We didn't even have a bathroom! We had a gaslight in the hallway and a black-and-white TV.

This is the book I never read ~ These are the words I never said ~ This is the path I'll never tread ~ These are the dreams I'll dream instead

I played with the image, because I think image is temporary. It's a projection. It's illusory.

I love to be individual, to step beyond gender.

You have to face things, have faith in what you do and go for it. Think, 'What's the worst that could happen?'

Humankind seems to have an enormous capacity for savagery, for brutality, for lack of empathy, for lack of compassion.

A lot of music you might listen to is pretty vapid, it doesn't always deal with our deeper issues. These are the things I'm interested in now, particularly at my age.

As he stared down at River's lips, swollen from his kisses, there was no question she would be his. The fire within her matched his.

[Adolf Hitler] was very close-mouthed, he was the most private individual I have ever seen, very secretive.

I don't think photography has anything remotely to do with the brain. It has to do with eye appeal.

Sage advice? If you're drunk, stay away from the phone. You can't get the answering machine message back.

In love we are not only liable to betray ourselves, but also the secrets of others.

Republicans fighting back against changes Obama made means those changes are important, as with most of the major progress in American history.

Every explanation is after all an hypothesis.

Knowledge is not information, it's transformation.

I was a really good student. I was nerdy and ambitious. I was involved with every large theater production at my school.

I disapprove of lots of decisions made by George Bush: the war, the meddling in the affairs of other countries, the conversations with dictators; it was a dark time.