Pop culture is more and more about skulls and skeletons and zombies and vampires, and that's not just on Halloween.

It's about love and loss, it struck me as a meaningful and compelling story, and the shifts in reality offered up strong visual possibilities.

I've always been fond of the advice I once heard from Robert Frank, "Keep your eyes open."

Well, I've cleaned bathrooms in a warehouse. That was pretty terrible. But I can't complain because I'm sure other people have done worse.

At the end of the day you gotta feel some way. So why not feel unbeatable? Why not feel untouchable.

I've been writing songs since I was like six or seven. I've been writing poetry and short stories and stuff, but my first serious, serious song, I wrote when I was fourteen.

Let thy mind still be bent, still plotting, where, And when, and how thy business may be done. Slackness breeds worms; but the sure traveller, Though he alights sometimes still goeth on.

The amount of competition is just literally insane.

I think the primary message to the world is that the United States is going to remain the strongest military power in the world.

I wouldn't have dared ask God for all that He's given me. I couldn't have done it on my own. I thank God every day for what I have.

The recovery of freedom is so splendid a thing that we must not shun even death when seeking to recover it.

The writer gleans wind scraps; he listens wherever he can. Each day is full of instances; what counts, as with all stimuli, is the sympathetic response.

You really have to wonder how long it will take for Tea Party devotees to realize just how badly they are being used.