I'd rather be a flash than a slowly burning ember.

...racist thought and action says far more about the person they come from than the person they are directed at.

Adopted. Big Deal; so was Superman

Something about the joy and pain of that moment, something about the excruciating contrast, made me feel that no matter what happens now, my life has been worth it. What a ride.

I think when you’re dying you start looking for important things in the corners. You can’t let anything that seems even semi-important pass, because it passes forever. Things take on meaning.

You put yourself out there in the truest way you can and hope others do the same. You'll connect or you won't, but you did what you could.

I believe there was a big bang and that because of that we are all connected into infinity, and I know very little having to do with human beings that doesn't also have to do with connection.

I have made a career of creating characters who fight school authority and chomp at the bit to get out into the 'real' world and live their lives, mostly because that's the kind of teenager I was.

But the truth doesn't need to be known, or believed, to be true.

Nothing exists without its opposite.

...we can say we love each other if my life is better because you're in it and your life is better because I'm in it.

their heart grew coldthey let their wings down

When you want to know how things really work, study them when they're coming apart.

I stared at her. Maybe I wasn't the brightest guy in the world when it came to girls, but I was pretty sure Rachel had just dumped me, which was lame considering we'd never even been together.

I cringed when I heard myself described as a Jazz singer. I've always thought of myself as a Jazz vocalist.

Every penny of the $7 billion going to Africa as per Obama will be stolen - corruption is rampant!

I have no desire to vote for French politicians, and I'm not entitled to vote in Switzerland.

I have never done a thriller, and it will just be really fun for me to heave and pant and run and climb and break windows and scream every once in a while

Moon appears to shine and light the sky with the help of some fireflies, wonder how they have the power to shine?

We have benefited greatly from the globalization of the economy in the last 30 years.

I've been to many countries and watched a number of conflicts or their residue, and I've served in the military.