No matter what anybody tells you, words and ideas can change the world

And medecine, law, business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love: these are what we stay alive for.

We don't read and write poetry because it's cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race.

May I search it?" she asked. "We screen for weapons."I stared at her, always a risky thing to do to a vampire. "Of course not. I have no weapons.

I wanted life that's comfortable enough for me, my ambitions and love.

I graduated from high school in 1963. There were no computers, cell phones, Internet, credit cards, cassette tapes or cable TV.

The Ill-directed mind can do to you even worse

Each day is a branch of the Tree of Life laden heavily with fruit. If we lie down lazily beneath it, we may starve; but if we shake the branches, some of the fruit will fall for us.

I like the natural sound of a room. All the rooms have their own sound, so it's a matter of putting it where you like and seeing what it sounds like.

Shia [LaBeouf] was great. He's just high energy. He's into really playing, and I had to be on my toes in a way that I wasn't necessarily expecting.

I sit at my window gazing The world passes by, nods to me And is gone.

Two wrongs don't make a right. No, but three will get you back on the freeway!

The self says, I am; The heart says, I am less; The spirit says, you are Nothing.