I have hair that looks like you could just take it off and plug a new style on.

I think that in performing, everybody's path is so so different, that there's nobody where I think, "Oh my god, that's exactly what happened to me."

There have been times where I lost a job or whatever, and I think, "Okay, well that's just not part of my lane."

My parents wanted me to be a teacher. Because I could work most of the year and pursue the things that I love to do during the summer. It just seemed like a good plan.

Where do dreams come from?...they slink out of books, they lurk in the stacks of libraries. Out of pages turned they rise like the scent of peonies and infect the brain with their promises.

Life is too magnificent to complain.

Lardo was getting on in years, and his big belly tended to slow him down a bit.

Running is bad for your knees and I like to do things I actually enjoy, like going for a swim.

Nothing is intrinsically valuable; the value of everything is attributed to it, assigned to it from outside the thing itself, by people.

You cannot control sin. Sin will control you. Do not try to manage sin.

Love is understanding, redemptive goodwill for all men, so that you love everybody.

She found herself to be quite worried that something would jump out at her, so she began to whistle. She thought it might make it harder for things to jump out at her, if she was whistling.

I would say that I definitely play a different role with my style; I like to mix it up a bit according to wherever I am. I dress differently in New York, L.A., Paris and London.

Mental illness, of course, is not literally a "thing" - or physical object - and hence it can "exist" only in the same sort of way in which other theoretical concepts exist.