Darkness does not leave without the light to chase it away. You need to have spiritual strength to pull you through the rough times.

Never wear a shoe that doesn't fit you

Stephen Hawking: Brainier than Kurt Cobain's garage wall.

It's never too late to be who you were meant to be.

The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.

I think a lot of my work has been a weird attempt to liberate myself, but it's not altogether successful.

I think for a lot of young people there is a sense that maybe the future is not going to be everything it was held out to be, especially if they're coming out with a lot of student debt.

There are certain things you don't discuss with Ansel, especially if you don't agree.

What is there in being able to say that one has dominated the stream in an attitude of self-defense; in proving that one has had the experience of carrying a stick?

The history of medicine is the history of the unusual.