You can only perceive real beauty in a person as they get older.

Cosmic upheaval is not so moving as a little child pondering the death of a sparrow in the corner of a barn.

It's so much better to desire than to have.... The moment of desire, when you know something is going to happen - that's the most exalting.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive; I feel that anything can happen.

Some pray to marry the man they love, my prayer will somewhat vary: I humbly pray to heaven above that I love the man I marry.

For a certain type of woman who risks losing her identity in a man, there are all those questions . . . until you get to the point and know that you really are living a love story.

It's so much better to desire than to have.

What helps me go forward is that I stay receptive I feel that anything can happen.

Not afraid to die, but not the fear of death

Writing, is not a race. Is to distill the soul letter by letter in a slow and delicate process that will take years.

I wish I was a better athlete. That would have been a little cooler, being a great boxer and walking into a room and going: "I can knock everybody out!" That's a good feeling.

And I think that if something doesn't make sense, forcing yourself to understand it from [Chris Nolan's] perspective makes you better.

Americans are a can-do people, an enthusiastic people, a problem-solving people. And when given a direction and given a plan, they'll sign on.

Non-Newtonian calculi... have considerable potential as alternative approaches to traditional problems.

We spend our time envying people whom we wouldn't wish to be.

I used to take Sharpies and draw on my pillowcases, and then go to sleep on them and wake up with red marker from the drool all on my face.

I am in musical theatre, but it isn't necessarily what I listen to in my leisure time, do you know what I mean?

Algebra is but written geometry and geometry is but figured algebra.