Clearly I am a very strong, top-of-the-line, always-rising-to-it personage.

My mother saw a movie when she was 14 years old. I forget the name of the movie, but one of the lead characters was named Lark. She decided then she would name me and she stuck to it, and here I am.

I have no worries myself, nor do I exude or possess within my living stratus any reason why someone should worry [on] my behalf.

There is no faster way to harden my determination than to assume I will fail at it.

Men do not mirror themselves in running water; they mirror themselves in still water.

I have a problem with that silver medal. It's like, 'Congratulation s, you almost won. Of all the losers, you're the number one loser. No one lost ahead of you.'

You cannot kill an idea by murdering innocent people — though you can nudge it toward suicide.

So long as the international community consists of sovereign states, war between them remains a possibility, of which all governments have to take reasonable account.

I went through about seven years of trying. And through artificial insemination. And through medication. And all of which was unsuccessful.

The blues - it's kind of like a religion, really.

Never go into business purely to make money. If that's the motive you're better off doing nothing.

I will always work for human rights for all people.

I'm a really, really, smart, multi-talented almost-genius, who's very annoying.