Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.

The knowledge of God is beginning of all knowledge.

To everybody who didn't believe in me, thank you. Because of you, I had to find my own way, and I did.

Looking at these people now from behind the counter, made her feel like that little girl again, the deprived child that used to press her nose on the glass, peering at things she could never have.

I was born with nothing and I still have nothing. And tomorrow is nothing.

One's lifework I have learned grows with the working and the living. Do it as if your life depended on it and first thing you know you'll have made a life out of it. A good life too.

From all that dims Thy Calvary, O Lamb of God, deliver me.

The United States has written the white history of the United States. It now needs to write the black, Latino, Indian, Asian and Caribbean history of the United States.

There's something really nice about not sitting separate from the crew in some massive trailer away from the studio. To actually be there with them, it's more of a creative process.

It feels like every single song is a chapter from a truly important novel.

There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route.