I recently bought a cat, but took it back a day later because our personalities clashed.

Travel far enough, you meet yourself.

Truth is singular. Its 'versions' are mistruths.

...now I'm a spent firework; but at least I've been a firework.

If swans weren't real myths'd make up.

Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.

I believe death is only a door. One closes, and another opens. If I were to imagine heaven, I would imagine a door opening. And he would be waiting for me there.

Our lives are not our own. We are bound to others, past and present, and by each crime and every kindness, we birth our future.

A half-read book is a half-finished love affair.

You say you're 'depressed' - all i see is resilience. You are allowed to feel messed up and inside out. It doesn't mean you're defective - it just means you're human.

I believe there is another world waiting for us. A better world. And I'll be waiting for you there.

Face your fears or they will climb over your back.

When your life is stormy, take a refuge to a port: To music or to literature, in short, to art, to any kind of art!

A goodlookin horse is like a goodlookin woman, he said. They're always more trouble than what they're worth. What a man needs is just one that will get the job done.

I'm doing a lot of parenting work and acting as a spokesperson. I have a clothing line and a line of toys.

It's one of the old show business axioms. No matter how successful you've been, there's always a younger and sexier seal coming along.

It is not the question, what am I going to be when I grow up; you should ask the question, who am I going to be when I grow up.

All the government decisions remain and won't be altered until I get in the role and have had a chance to discuss them with my colleagues.

Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.

To err is common to all mankind, but having erred he is no longer reckless nor unblest who haven fallen into evil seeks a cure, nor remains unmoved.

Art amplifies voices on the margins-the views and opinions that power silences.