If you try to do your best there is no failure.

My dreams for the future are simple: work, a happy, healthy family, a lovely long motorcycle ride, and continuing the struggle to awaken people to the need for serious human rights reform.

I gave away two dogs years ago because I felt guilty at not being able to give them the time and attention they deserved. I now regularly feed an army of squirrels and wild birds around our house.

People seem to see no difference between an intimate conversation and a conversation at the water cooler.

It is inappropriate for the Bush administration to trump up a case in which we are ballyhooed into war.

Its mostly the financial chicanery thats going on. People are saying What kind of trust can we put in this market?

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

Gennia is eating and talking to Ruiz on the phone. Each time he takes a mouthful, he catches a whiff of his shirt, which stinks of failure and yesterday.

Life has meaning only if one barters it day by day for something other than itself.

The more I like a book, the more slowly I read. this spontaneous talking back to a book is one of the things that makes reading so valuable.

For the sake of our security, our economy and our planet, we must have the courage and commitment to change.

They dined on mince, and slices of quince, Which they ate with a runcible spoon; And hand in hand, on the edge of the sand, They danced by the light of the moon.

Last night, I was on the threshold of hell. To-day, I am within sight of my heaven. I have my eyes on it: hardly three feet to sever me!

I grew up hearing about the walking undead. I had a fascination with it as a child.

People are a lot more open than even they think they are. And I feel like I carry a heavy story about where I come from and those roots, but also what I like as a thinker.

I was in the original cast of Wicked, and that got a bad review in The New York Times, and it’s the most successful thing that’s ever been put onstage.

I don't think I'll ever be able to stay in one place for more than a year or two. It's not in my nature.