I read more books than you can imagine on all sorts of odd topics, which is something that I love.

Artists are always the Johnny Appleseeds of gentrification.

Not everyone's life will be a great love story.

I know already that I can survive it. That's the sorrow of it all. That whatever comes I'll survive it. I mean, even if the worst were to be true, would it really be the worst?

Opinions are like ugly children … despite it all you love your own.

She wants another spin on the wheel of fortune? This was always my problem with her: I could never tell the difference between the feeling of love and the feeling of danger.

I remain exquisitely still. Anytime the eagle of another heart soars, whatever you are-mouse, toad, snake- don't move. From such great heights, it might not see you.

You never know what will save you.

When life throws you a curve ball, have a good eye.

The worst thing to be afraid of is fear. Give yourself grace. – Jessica Willis

I've been very independent from the day I arrived in Washington.

I am more afraid of making a fault in my Latin than of the Kings of Spain, France, Scotland, the whole House of Guise, and all of their confederates.

We gonna touch the sky.

The more you make this world about you, the more miserable you will be.

For it is obvious to everybody, I think, that this study [of astronomy] compels the soul to look upward and leads it away from things here to higher things.

Christianity will only make a contribution to the future of Europe if it can prove that people like Sam Harris are wrong and that we can make peace.

The taint of arrogance will I not know.