I think even celebrities deserve their privacy. I really do. It's sort of a hideous spectacle, the public feeding on all this information.

I'd learned myself by the age of sixteen that just as girls guarded their virginity, boys guarded something less tangible which they called Themselves.

Nothing ever happened except God.

I believe in the curative powers of love as the English believe in tea or Catholics believe in the Miracle of Lourdes.

If time were like a passage of music, you could keep going back to it until you got it right.

Everyone knew in the 1950s why a girl from a nice family left home. The meaning of her theft of herself from her parents was clear to all - as well as what she'd be up to in that room of her own.

Legend adheres to artists whose deaths seem the corollaries of their works.

We tend to make up the people we fall in love with

I became intent on saving him through showing him that he was loved.

We derive a lot of the reality of ourselves through interactions with others.

Sacrificing everything for one's craft is something some people can't help. They can't help themselves. They must do it. They're driven to do it.

Whatever women do they must do twice as well as men to be thought half as good. Luckily, this is not difficult.

If you build your faith with the limitations as the foundation, you tend to obstruct the realization of your goals easily.

Each one of us is a creator. And together, we are The Creator.

I go to eat dinner with my folks when I'm home. I think that's the trick.

Trying to determine the structure of a protein by UV spectroscopy was like trying to determine the structure of a piano by listening to the sound it made while being dropped down a flight of stairs.

Our differences in beliefs do not truly separate us, or elevate us over others. Rather, they highlight the rich tapestry that is humanity.

It's our God forsaken right to be loved, loved, loved.

Fate gave, what Chance shall not control, His sad lucidity of soul.

If it be true that any beautiful thing raises the pure and just desire of man from earth to God, the eternal fount of all, such I believe my love.

Synergy means behavior of whole systems unpredicted by the behavior of their parts.