Agnes always wanted to go out. Out was better than in. In was inside, in was interior, in was introspection.

What does she want to be? A green girl doesn't like to consider this question. She is waiting around to be discovered just for being herself.

Sometimes she is struck by how much she goes through life almost unconsciously. She is being swept along. She is a pale ghost.

I don't know what tomorrow brings, but I strongly believe that my mind is fully capable of dealing with whatever it shows up with.

Why should we be letting people smoke their cigars in their comfortable chairs in Raqqa?

But, you know, the issues of humanity and what is fair treatment and good treatment of a fellow human being should not really be based on a personal sense of right and wrong or judgment.

The next step in meditation is not just to focus, but to stop thought completely without having to focus; you gain a tremendous amount of personal power.

It is for the artist... in portrait painting to put on canvas something more than the face the model wears for that one day; to paint the man, in short, as well as his features.

My second record I used a producer, which was frustrating in a way, because I think a lot of the punky spirit and provocative nature of the lyrics didn't come across - the music was pretty.

What President Bush did in his doctrine of preemptive strike and in his war in Afghanistan and in Iraq was to turn even his allies in Europe negatively toward America.

Poverty is not deprivation, it is isolation.

This is the first time I've ever played the Grammys. I finally passed the audition.

Length of saying makes languor of hearing.