Next to being shot at and missed nothing is quite as satisfying as an income tax refund.

there isn't enough of anything as long as we live. But at intervals a sweetness appears and, given a chance prevails.

Life and death matters, yes. And the question of how to behave in this world, how to go in the face of everything. Time is short and the water is rising.

That's all we have, finally, the words, and they had better be the right ones.

Write about what you know, and what do you know better than your own secrets?

And what did you want? To call myself beloved, to feel myself beloved on the earth.

I could hear my heart beating. I could hear everyone's heart. I could hear the human noise we sat there making, not one of us moving, not even when the room went dark.

When I split an infinitive, God damn it, I split it so it stays split.

Down these mean streets a man must go who is neither tarnished nor afraid

He looked about as inconspicuous as a tarantula on a slice of angel food.

I have absolutely no fear of death. From my near-death research and my personal experiences, death is, in my judgment, simply a transition into another kind of reality.

Christ did not die by accident. He died voluntarily in our place.

We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

He who is afraid is half beaten.

Deep down, you do want a Grammy, you do want an Oscar. You do want people to acknowledge what you've done.

There is no country in the world with the diversity, confidence and talent and black pride like Nigeria.

America was targeted for attack because we're the brightest beacon for freedom and opportunity in the world, and no one will keep that light from shining.

I was very clear that I wanted to keep 'Thor' out of the rest of the Marvel universe for no less than the first six issues. And the success of the book, I think, speaks well to that decision.

And I envy the intransigence of my own Countrymen who shoot to kill and never See the victim's face become their own Or find his motive sabotage their motives.

To look in the mirror and like what you see, even when it doesn't look like your idea of beauty.

I've had a lot of cognitive behavioural therapy, and am having a family now.