A wave of saudade swept over me as I realized home never existed at all. The concept of home felt far from my reach, and I felt sick with longing.

Adversity has the remarkable ability of introducing the real you to yourself.

I left a piece of my soul that will always rightfully belong in the desert.

It was a frightening metaphor for what the United States was becoming – a Titanic of rich, proud dimwits heading for the iceberg of anti-colonialist backlash.

To stay alive, you have to keep moving. Running, relocating, driving, doing everything in your power to stay in motion and make it to safety.

Home.” This was my mantra, my four-letter savior.

Wish it, believe it, and it will be so.

Pushing production out of America to nations without our environmental standards increases global environmental risks.

My dad bought me a guitar when I was very young, and I never looked back.

In Beautiful, Mr. Shearer writes with humor and has fun with some of the glorious nonsense of Lamarr's movies.

If you want a vision of the future, imagine Washington-back ed Google Glasses strapped onto vacant human faces - forever.

Pray on all occasions." Unlocked page 38.

I use the name and the thought very, very easily as a sort of comfort - as a kind of comfort, in some way. And in that way, it's just like having a friend, I suppose.

I always wanted to find a way to apply my acting in a big mad monster movie where I was transforming into this scary entity.

Pessimism has never done anything but tear down and destroy what optimism has built up.

The moment you say 'I know everything' is the end of your growth.