I want you to be careful in this world. My heart is wrapped up in you.

We are a fallen species, spitting on the gift of salvation. Humanity is irredeemable.

music was the only beautiful thing he owned

What you call pride, I call courage.

Wanting to believe something is powerful

That wouldn't be a bad way to die...giving off light for millions of years after you're gone.

There are books stacked high around them - the way opportunity and possibility are stacked around them.

Only is a bird doesn't swim in the ocean but flies in the air can it enter the ocean from above

These are the quicksilver moments of my childhood I cannot remember entirely. Irresistible and emblematic, I can recall them only in fragments and shivers of the heart.

Caring about a person is like praying to a doughnut in the darkness.

What the culture of get rich quick does to our people is they look down at people who are engaged in manual labour

I have always been willing to admit when I made a mistake. I made a mistake in my understanding of the composition of the Contras, not on my opposition to the Contra war.

It will not do to be saints at meeting and sinners everywhere else.

My brain . . . it cannot process failure. It will not process failure. Because if I sit there and have to face myself and tell myself, 'You're a failure' . . . I think that's almost worse than death.

An actress, around 40, on television, that's where you get the most torture, I think.

I can't stand most things that I see.

Evolution normally does not come to a halt, but constantly 'tracks' the changing environment.