Suffocation is a cruel way to go.

What is family anyway but people who are always supposed to be there for you? Family should be rock solid, the earth beneath your feet, wind beneath your wings, and all that.

Computers are quiet and clean and totally distracting because the Internet is there, lying in wait for a moment of weakness to pounce on your creativity and progress.

When your mind is foggy, all you need is the winds of wisdom!

The love and attention you always thought you wanted from someone else, is the love and attention you first need to give to yourself.

I can't afford to be indifferent to politics, but I don't have personal ambitions.

I grew up in the '90s. I listened to a lot of The Clash, Velvet Underground and Roxy Music. I wasn't into Boyzone, or anything.

Twelve for 23... It doesn't take a genius to see that's under 50 percent.

It is the storytellers task to elicit sympathy and a measure of understanding for those who lie outside the boundaries of State approval.

A lot of powerful people in Washington may think it's a crazy-leftist-fringe position to think the intellectual authors of a torture regime should be investigated and prosecuted.

Treat [the people] as slaves, guard them against brigands, and they will come to regard themselves as slaves and brigands.

Only when you give up being consistent will you find the truth! Inconsistency makes you free to discover other roads.

I thought that Christian was a noun, a person looking for authenticity. I never understood that idea that a band could be Christian or something could be Christian. But it just can be and is.