My creativity and my political work are linked. I don't do this work out of guilt or out of responsibility.

When we make mistakes, say, I'm blessed that I have an opportunity to learn from this.

If you have the guts to keep making mistakes, your wisdom and intelligence leap forward with huge momentum.

Once women are not excluded, I don't think any of us will give a damn what pronouns are used. That wasn't the point.

Why do we kill people who are killing people to show that killing people is wrong?

Leaping away from my mistakes has propelled me forward. It has great force behind it. It makes for great storytelling.

To be always in a state of wonder is a kind of sensitivity that can sometimes be an extraordinary blessing and sometimes a real pain.

I am selfish. I reach for the world I want to live in. And I believe in leaving our best we can do to our children

Music can be used against us as much as it can be used for us. Muzak can put a whole nation to sleep, whereas a lullaby is intended to put a child to sleep in a sweet way.

You just keep feeding hogwash to people, and pretty soon they'll eat it.

You can't just leave out one part; the bread won't rise if the yeast isn't there.

If you don’t know your tendencies and can’t analyze when you are most effective, then how can you get the most done in the least amount of time with the best results?

We bring to everything we read the expectations we have built up by a lifetime of reading.

Mornings are like almost clean slates. I say almost clean because the residue of yesterdays is sometimes stuck on them.

Polio's pretty special because once you get an eradication, you no longer have to spend money on it; it's just there as a gift for the rest of time.

The most challenging aspect of the decathlon is not the events themselves, but how you train to become the best 100-meter runner you are on the same day that you're the best 1,500-meter runner.

My dad gave $3 and a chicken for the first guitar I had.

Responsibiliti es gravitate to the man who can shoulder them and the power to him who knows how

The need of exercise is a modern superstition, invented by people who ate too much and had nothing to think about.

I'd desperately love England to beat the Australians.

Well I don't know, I might have lost my citizenship, I don't think you can lose your citizenship though.