I've always seen L.A. as a giant kind of laboratory for ideas in a caldron for concepts where you can try anything you want to and if it fizzles, so what, you try something else.

Men never think their fortunes too great nor their wit too little.

Women's sport helps break down a lot of barriers for women in other areas, whether in religion or politics.

I will not die an unlived life...I choose to inhabit my days, to allow my living to open me...I choose to risk my significance.

Technology is helping more and more deaf people hear, but here at Gallaudet, we focus on learning and achieving-not on listening. So I would still say deaf people can do anything, except hear.

It seems to me that God is a convenient invention of the human mind

I've always found life quite difficult to explain to people or to myself.

Genius begins great works; labor alone finishes them.

I like to know what I'm celebrating before I put on a party hat.

At the time I could no more believe my eyes than now I can trust my memory.

I really write emotionally so whatever mood I'm in, or if a chord hits me a certain way that's what I'll go off of.