Depriving our communities of libraries will deprive our society of its ability to survive. - Neil Gaiman

Bad news is that you can control nothing but your thoughts. Good news is that with your thoughts you can control everything else.

People ask me what the most important thing to take on the race is, and I always say it's a sense of humor. If you've got nothing but a sense of humor, you will survive.

And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.

Everyone sort of feels alienated at that point, so it's hard to say whether I felt like that because everyone does or because I was so focused on acting [since the age of 8].

Mainstream media tend to just mouth the conventional wisdom, to see everything through the filter of right and left.

Man shows his character best in trifles.

Do not romanticize the poor...We are all people, human beings subject to the same temptations and faults as all others. Our poverty damages our dignity.

I’m not perfect and I don’t have to be.

When you’re young, whatever you do that makes you stand out is a frightening thing. You learn later that that’s what you want to do, stand out.

it's a kiss full of promise, of trust and of all that is magic.