My face is rather like a collision waiting to happen: head-on I can be borne, but turn sideways, and it is all calamity.

In life, more than in anything else, it isn’t easy to end up alive.

The journey of the mind always has longer to travel than the heart because dreams carry weight, while love makes you float.

Writers should be heard, not seen.

The best part about being a superstar is that you can wear the most outrageous of clothes and they say 'it's in!'

The societies that work build an infrastructure of care as well as an infrastructure of capitalism.

You can talk about teamwork on a baseball team, but I'll tell you, it takes teamwork when you have 2,900 men stationed on the U.S.S. Alabama in the South Pacific.

It is difficult to lay aside a confirmed passion.

I want to know if you know how to melt into that fierce heat of living falling toward the center of your longing.

Maybe that's what being alive is about: so we can track down those movments that are dying.

I never put out a history, I put out a dramatic history.