A story has its purpose and its path. It must be told correctly for it to be understood.

If a life can be ruined in a single moment, a moment of betrayal, or violence, or ill luck, then why can a life not also be saved, be worth living, be made, by just a few pure moments of perfection?

There's always a third choice in life. Even if you think you're stuck between two impossible choices, there's always a third way. You just have to look for it.

There never was a story that was happy through and through.

If I were dead, I wouldn't be sad, and I wouldn't be glad, because I wouldn't be.

I'm just a girl in a nurse's uniform, but that doesn't mean I know how to save these men, and they- they are men in uniforms, but that doesn't mean they know how to die.

The time for princes and tsars and holy madmen was gone.In its place came a world of war and revolution, of tanks andtelephones, murder and assassination.

One final time I told myself I wasn't abducting my little brother.

What is the life of a Christian but a life of prayer!

At the end of the day, you want to be always the one that's one step ahead of everybody, and when it comes to hip-hop, culture and art, you want to be that signature guy.

Find the heart of it. Make the complex simple, and you can achieve mastery.

When I got 'Family Ties', I wasn't even thinking about being an actress. I thought I might become a window dresser.

All my friends are artists, so I am used to collective agony as a mode.

A wave is never found alone, but is mingled with as many other waves as there are uneven places in the object where the said wave is produced.

I'll take your breath any way you give it to me, Shura.

I was the highest-paid street performer, probably, in the history of Chicago. I was making like $800 a day.

There's one secret to hitting hard, and that is to completely dedicate your body. That's the difference between a man going forward and a man going backward, no matter how big he is.

And if your head explodes with dark forebodings too I'll see you on the dark side of the moon.