Most aspects of my training didn’t agree with me. There wasn’t as much bossing around as I’d hoped for, and there was way too much following orders.

Screw this. He’d blown his shot at nice-and-easy, which only left quick-and-brutal—my favorite way to play.

In the office, Michael sat behind our father’s desk, clicking away at the computer with his right hand, and making notes with his left. Ambidextrous freak.

I had no desire to hear another woman tell my boyfriend how hot he was. If I wanted him to know, I'd damn well tell him myself.

Creativity is nature. Nature is creativity.

Each new day begins with a meditation, and ends with a purifying catharsis.

Oh, if only I could hurt with such misery once again, to feel the powers of love here inside my heart, the joys of heaven and the pains of hell!

The world goes on, you go on and you change. You want to show the fans those changes, and you want to be able to verbalize them.

All things bright and beautiful, All creatures great and small, All things wise and wonderful, The Lord God made them all.

Even when we cannot see the why and wherefore of God's dealings, we know that there is love in and behind them, and so we can rejoice always.

If we can't come together, and have conversations and understand our biases and understand that hate, none of us are really the good guys here.

What is education but a conditioning of the mind to a society and a way of life.

If, hypothetically, Western Catholicism were to review the issue of celibacy, I think it would do so for cultural reasons, not so much as a universal option.

I used to be weird about it, but I think sometimes you can learn from watching yourself and all the mistakes you make and try to continue growing. But I'm completely uncomfortable for sure.