People forget that old women were young once, but d'you think we old women forget? In my heart, I'm still thirty.

Calling it lunacy makes it easier to explain away the things we don't understand.

Sight is one of the most easily deceived senses. I could make a coin disappear and your eyes would believe it gone, even if it were merely up my sleeve.

You learned to run from what you feel, and that's why you have nightmares. To deny is to invite madness. To accept is to control.

The answers are what they are. Just because you don't like them doesn't mean they aren't true.

The only truth was whatever you could make someone believe.

Trying to justify a world we don't hold all the answers to is what bedevils the best of us. Sometimes it's better just to accept that things are as we see them.

Impatient men are generous ones. Or haven't you learned that by now?

All life's a risk, that's what makes it interesting.

It seems all spirits need theatrics, eh? Even Christ himself requires incense and holy water. We're a skeptical people. We need convincing.

Savor the starry night, your child's laughter, the morning walk, the nightly study, the daily routines and the bold espresso.

If you want to have a creative culture, you can't get it by reading books. You get it by example.

I believe in this tragic hour you can make the right choice. The honor and glory of Russian men of arms shall not be stained with the blood of the people.

Until the mind is open, the heart stays closed. The open mind is the key to the open heart.

When you're a performer, of course you want an audience, but it's very, very different from courting fame.

Without death there would be no awareness of life, and the recurring selection and renewal that has caused life's progress would be ended.

I think making the songs is to put strength in the community in some way.

Live fast, fight hard, no regrets!

I don't mind saying what's on my mind.

Every crime has, in the moment of its perpetration, Its own avenging angel-dark misgiving, An ominous sinking at the inmost heart.