My optimism? Where I grew up our principal cultural expression was the funeral. Whatever keeps me going, it isn't optimism.

I told her I was not sure I could bear living with memories, she said, Look up at the stars, look, they are not there, what you see is the memory of what once was, once upon a time.

The learning curve is 'The Hobbit' is being shot in 3D.

I sort of was good at writing essays. I was never very good at mathematics, and I was never very good at algebra. I loved science, but I wasn't sure of it.

It’s a woman saying something secretive, something in her eyes that’s almost animalistic

There's no one thing that's true. It's all true.

I think it was my study of history that convinced me that the Democratic Party was more on the side of the average American.

Despite the failures you've had, you can be great.

God comes to you disguised as your life.

Somewhere behind me, Zia yelled, "Hippo!" Which I thought was a little late. ~Carter Kane

We make the best phone, we don't make the most phones.