Our lives are destined by the determination of our own principles.

Fear is a probability by its own cause of actions, if we live by it we lose all the possibilities of endurance

We all can't be Rich, but we can be civilized human beings to each other.

Being not perfect is not about making mistakes and saying I'm sorry, but! its about learning from it and then being perfect for not making the same mistake again.

I wanted to paint a picture some day that people would stand before and forget that it was made of paint. I wanted it to creep into them like a bar of music and mushroom there like a soft bullet.

I think we take it for granted that if you are with your husband after 30 years, then he is the love of your life.

Alice Cullen had more vampire interaction, for sure, than human interaction. I think she was kind of amped to finally get to play a vampire, so she was good to go.

If you die without agency as a child, but you have agency in your body [in the novel], how is it to be enacted unless it is being reimagined by a writer?

The goal is not to make something factually impeccable, but seamlessly persuasive.

That, what we're really seeing in Iraq is not a terrible war, but in fact, just the media's portrayal of it.

I cannot afford to waste my time making money

Cambodia wanted no part of SEATO. We would look after ourselves as neutrals and Buddhists.

Imagine jumping into a pit of boiling acid. Now multiply that pain times fifty." -Percy

I've been listening to a lot of John Coltrane. I don't know if that would or wouldn't surprise anybody. I go through different phases - sometimes I want to listen to music that's just pummeling.