It's in our blind trust that love will find us, just like it has before.

I'm a little bit antisocial and I recently discovered that I'm introverted. But the love between people makes me alive.

Artists and celebrities are citizens, and as such you have a responsibility to keep fighting for justice because there are monolithic power structures and systemic oppression out there.

I see people whose spirits are not broken, who continue to work for justice. That makes me feel alive, when I witness their work, and then I witness some of their dreams come to fruition.

Falling, falling, falling, falling down. Look yourself in the eye before you drown.

Love is selflessness and self-fullness; it can only be known deeply with an open, vulnerable heart.

I don't think any human being is truly free. We're so tethered to our own insecurities and hampered by our fears and our prejudices. I think it's human nature that we're never going to be free.

The prize is always worth the rocky ride.

Begin my studies with the paper and this pencil and i'm working through the grammar of my fears.

You set up your place in my thoughts, moved in and made my thinking crowded.

You have to laugh at yourself, because you'd cry your eyes out if you didn't.

Literature should be a kind of revolutionary manifesto against established morality and established society.

I've been asking around to find out what girls are into, " Eugene tells me, really pleased with himself. "So I'm gonna get a spray tan and make red-velvet cupcakes.

Writing a book is like masturbation, and making a movie is like an orgy.

The doctors are always changing their opinions. They always have some new fad.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Factors affecting effective regional cooperation are mindsets and perceptions emanating from the past

I don't really like thanksgiving food, i'm not worried about overeating.

We [ The Kansas]'re somewhat hard-pressed at this time to imagine any bands that'll be around 40 years from now (and that's our personal opinion).

In all my life I have treated the press with marked contempt and remarkable success.

Philosophy begins when one learns to doubt -- particularly to doubt one's cherished beliefs, one's dogmas and one's axioms.