Maybe the '50s and '60s were more awkward because everyone knew there were things under the surface, but no one talked about them.

I'm not a space writer, obviously, but I had bought this big photo book of the moon landing. You just get attached to certain stories that don't let you go.

There is something so hopeful about a diary, a journal, a new notebook, which Joan Didion and Virginia Woolf both wrote about. A blog. Perhaps we all are waiting for someone to discover us.

I've met a lot of the astronauts, which was such an incredible experience. They're all very macho guys, like fighter pilots, but then there's a mysticism about them.

Americans are obsessed with wild, outlandish things. Marilyn Monroe, Mickey Mouse, and Michael Jackson are all wild, outlandish things.

Am reading the life of Mozart and cannot help thinking that one's capacity for suffering is in direct proportion to one's greatness.

How I love - writing, acting, breathing the atmosphere- and one day I'll have it. If I cannot write, I shall die.

To live in books is cowardly---but people are not worth investigation.

Remember, faith is the harbinger of chaos.

In the 20th century, artists did a great disservice to fairies. They painted fairies in a way that was shallow and trite. So when people see my stuff, they suddenly realize the depth of fairies.

This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.

Something changed between the two men, namely [Donald ] Trump started slinging mud on Twitter about [Ted] Cruz's wife, Heidi, including a mean comparing her looks unfavourably to his own.

The incidence of memory is like light from dead stars whose influence lingers long after the events themselves.

I just think music is so intrinsically linked with images in the culture that we live in that youll be hard-pressed to have an experience with the music without a preconceived notion.

A person with power has control of their emotions. A person with power can stop fear, stop depression, or they can augment a positive emotion.

I was born in a lovely white house with a garden.

One can steal ideas, but no one can steal execution or passion.

The presence of the present has become insistent, undeniable, and I dare not look away.