Beautiful is sick, so we’re here to smother her back to health.

I've never been a boyfriend kind of girl.

It makes it easier to play evil and to act evil to people that you really like. You have a feeling about them, so you know what the opposite is.

In my experience women are like cats. When you don't want them you can't get rid of them and when you do want them it's like trying to pick up lint with a magnet.

But even in the Christian religion, much of its real meaning is hidden by words that are misleading and symbols that but few understand.

I think you're not really teaching anyone unless you're learning yourself.

Apparently, as a kid, I used to eat spiders. Maybe there's some Freudian significance behind that.

The leaves let go, the seeds let go, and I must let go sometimes, too, and cast my lot with another of nature’s imperfect but tenacious survivors.

The human mind is a wonderful thing, it starts working from before you're born and doesn't stop till you sit down to write a song.

Having bought truth dear, we must not sell it cheap, not the least grain of it for the whole world.

Too rigid specialization is almost as bad for a historian's mind, and for his ultimate reputation, as too early an indulgence in broad generalization and synthesis.