Crippled things are always more beautiful. It's the flaw that brings out beauty.

If curiosity killed the cat, it was satisfaction that brought it back.

She loves the serene brutality of the ocean, loves the electric power she felt with each breath of wet, briny air.

You can break a thing, but you cannot always guide it afterward into the shape you want.

Don’t ask for advice too much. Go with you, as gritty as that might be at times.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

there are many Africas.

I think these days, as an artist, you have to be slightly entrepreneurial. ...Nobody really sells records anymore.

My mother said, if you don't have the cash, don't buy it. And on that, my mother was right.

And what if I did run my ship aground; oh, still it was splendid to sail it!

I'll go for broke. Swim faster. It's not going to be easy - this whole thing was never going to be easy.

It's the formulaic studio movies the make money, and when they do, the actors in them are automatically movie stars.

I never thought I was good enough actually to write.

Let's let everything come to the surface, even with people we come in contact with for a moment. This situation can help us be a little bit more awake with each other.