I had this idea that the coolest thing that could happen to you was talking with God.

My sunglasses are like my guitar.

We go through life. We shed our skins. We become ourselves.

To be an artist — actually, to be a human being in these times — it’s all difficult. … What matters is to know what you want and pursue it.

Never let go of that fiery sadness called desire.

Where does it all lead? What will become of us? These were our young questions, and young answers were revealed. It leads to each other. We become ourselves.

Life isn't some vertical or horizontal line -- you have your own interior world, and it's not neat.

I imagined myself as Frida to Diego, both muse and maker. I dreamed of meeting an artist to love and support and work with side by side.

Swift is the arrow, dark is the thorn, the slate is clean, the future awaits, awake.

Make your interactions with people transformational, not just transactional.

To me, punk rock is the freedom to create, freedom to be successful, freedom to not be successful, freedom to be who you are. It's freedom.

We all have skeletons in our closets, but if you see someone who still loves you despite knowing about them, then that person is a true friend.

Experience is simply the name we give our mistakes.

In politics, guts is all.

My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years, to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub.

I also believed that our public at home would be strong enough to survive even the present crisis.

I took an oath to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, and I'm concerned that voting for this [anti-terrorism] legislation fundamentally violates that oath.

When I see daughters with their fathers I wonder what that would be like, although not in a way that immobilises me.

The secret to having everything you want out of life is the realization that you really don't want most of the things you think you want.

There were twelve dishes of lamb cooked in different rich sauces, with a monster bowl of strange oddments, which I imagine also belonged to the private life of a sheep, floating in rich gravy.

Terrorists act as they do because they don't have great power at their easy disposal. The result is that they rely upon the ability to exploit the mistakes of others.