As an artist, it is central to be unsatisfied.

You are not my dream girl.You are this earth. You are not a fantasy: you are my love. And love is friendship lit by a wooden match with a white tip on its red tip. I am your match, and you are mine.

It is wise to do what you love.

Mexico will not be taking advantage of us. They will not be having open borders.

The role of a leader is to serve his people. We absolutely must first serve the people who we want to lead. They must be able to rely on the leader as much as we hope to rely on them.

You do not see with the lens of the eye. You seen through that, and by means of that, but you see with the soul of the eye.

I wanted to write about Afghanistan before the Soviet war because that is largely a forgotten period in modern Afghan history.

If someone messes with me, I'm going to mess with them.

Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.

I was about five years old when I was eating soup in our kitchen, and as I was lifting the spoon towards my mouth, it bent and broke in half.

The choice to have a great attitude is something that nobody or no circumstance can take from you.