I knew I would always want to go on living with myself, however hollow I became, however diseased.

The most important questions in life can never be answered by anyone except oneself.

The profoundest distances are never geographical.

There are only two races on this planet - the intelligent and the stupid.

There comes a time in each life like a point of fulcrum. At that time you must accept yourself. It is not any more what you will become. It is what you are and always will be.

Time is not a road - it is a room.

The pronoun is one of the most terrifying masks man has invented.

There are many reasons why novelists write, but they all have one thing in common - a need to create an alternative world.

In some mysterious way woods have never seemed to me to be static things. In physical terms, I move through them; yet in metaphysical ones, they seem to move through me.

Alive. Alive in the way that death is alive.

An answer is always a form of death.

We're all latchkey kids a threshold from peace.

If you have to choose between the two hopeless situations, choose the one which gives you at least an opportunity to fight!

Most people don't realize, I really have no faith in politics. I'm not a politician. If I thought you could change human hearts by laws, I would, but I don't.

I don't think of my songs as sad songs. I think of them as vulnerable and honest. I crack jokes in between songs, so people don't leave feeling too dark.

But Socialism, alone, can bring self-determination of their peoples.

No one who works a forty hour week will ever beat me.

When there is breakdown in a relationship, you must have the hard conversation. It may not be pretty and it may not feel good. But if you are willing to listen and tell the truth, it will open up.

You can't sleep your way into being a star. It takes much, much more. But it helps a lot of actresses get their first chance that way.

Love is not weak, feeble or soft. Love is the positive force of life. Love is the cause of everything positive and good.

Take the job you would take if you were independently wealthy. You're going to do well at it.