Our own attitude is that we are charged with discovering the best way of doing everything.

You get what you expect and you deserve what you tolerate.

There is so much power in not been easily fazed and having the will to go on no matter what. I pray for "bottomless tenacity".

I’ve memorized the best angles in the bathroom mirror from which to see how badly I’ve disintegrated. I truly do go from sixty to zero.

The birth of the mind is the death of the senses

I persist in performing.

Sometimes there isn't a way to hug and make everything better.

I'm paid to be lucky and that means making your own luck - getting yourself in the right position, in front of the right subject at the right time, and in the right light.

You can't put a load of rockstars up on a stage and expect to wipe out global poverty. That's ludicrous.

The renown which riches or beauty confer is fleeting and frail mental excellence is a splendid and lasting possession.

Whoever declares another heretic is himself a devil. Whoever places a relic or artifact above justice, kindness, mercy, or truth is himself a devil and the thing elevated is a work of evil magic.

I believe in religion against the religious; in the pitifulness of orisons, and in the sublimity of prayer.