Suffering belongs to no language.

Destiny doesn't exist. It's God we need, and fast.

I have no desire to dress up my poetry and make it fancy. I want the poem to be as true as humanly possible to the feeling that inspired it. That's my only concern. Everything else seems wrong.

Nature's design is fully economical. Human design follows this model when it minimizes information and maximizes understanding.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

I think that there isn't a photograph in the world that has any narrative ability... They do not tell stories - they show you what something looks like. To a camera.

I used to sing in the church choir. People would say it was unusual for such a small girl to have such a big voice. They would say, 'She sounds like she's grown.'

As an actor, the biggest compliment you can get, in my book is for someone to believe that you're the character.

Every kind of writing is hypocritical.

Twenty years and $40 billion. They seem like good round numbers.

I want to tell stories for everyone, primarily.

Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money.

The private control of credit is the modern form of slavery.