The market is the only critic that matters.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

The best critic needn't be right, just interesting.

Okay, babe, I'm here.”

The nature of consciousness is to point beyond itself. It is a tending toward or pointing to... Since consciousness points beyond itself, it is in its very being a self-transcendence.

Our lives can hold just so much. If they're filled with one thing, they can't be filled with another. We ought to do a lot of thinking about what we want to fill them with.

Sometimes people say oh you did one of my favorite movies and I will ask them what the other one is and it's always something that I totally hate.

One does not practice meditation to become a great meditator. We meditate to wake up and live, to become skilled at the art of living.

We don't just want what we want because we want it; we want what we want because that's what we've learned to want.

Am I now supposed to go on Oprah and cry and tell you my deepest, darkest secrets because you want to know?

This thing in society that you have to be a stick will always be in my mind, but that's just something I have to deal with.

There comes a point where it is just undignified to be a rock 'n' roll star.

I am very proud of my name. My full name is Richard Treat Williams.