Politics is a word spelled N-O-W.

Survival is a four letter word.

To change is to be vulnerable. And to be vulnerable is to be alive.

Writers are spies. Outsiders. Believers in the turning pages.

Pain can be washed out with a song. / Pain can become jazz digested and transformed.

A girl is a soul at sunrise.

I don't see what people get from hating other people unless it's a special thing I just ain't hip to.

Music stays in the air. / It travels at the speed of breath / at the sound of light. / It is never not heard. / It can wait centuries if it has to.

Yes I graduated from high school. Welfare. Temporary work, please. What is my problem? I want to eat.

babies ain't cute / hungry.

Those who believe and their hearts become calm and contented with the remembrance of Allah...know that it is the remembrance of Allah alone that brings rest to the hearts.(The Qur'an-surah ar-R'ad

All suffering is not demonic or possess demonic influences. Oftentimes, Christ is simply allowing us to be strengthen for the next level of destiny.

[Alexander von] Humboldt showers us with true treasures.

Twentieth-century American poetry has been one of the glories of modern literature.

History is philosophy teaching by example, and also warning; its two eyes are geography and chronology.

Can we think more than one thought at the same time? Most of us know we can't do that. Both hemispheres are always working all of the time. But one of them is always dominant.

I have, in some ways, saved characters that have been marginalized by society by playing them - and having them still have dignity and still survive, still get through it.

Self knowledge is best learned not by contemplation, but by action.

I'm particularly inspired by pristine locations. I enjoy working in areas where one can travel for miles without seeing any human influence.

I do think sometimes when scrolling through the TV and there's something on and I look at it and I think oh, my god. I thought I was fat? What is my problem?