Providing reserves and exchanges for the whole world is too much for one country and one currency to bear.

Katsa and Po were trying to drown each other and, judging from their hoots of laughter, enjoying it immensely.

Out of sheer perversity, I followed beauty where it lead, into the silence.

This is appalling. The idea that a person could be punished because of their religious belief and the idea they might be executed is just beyond belief.

To begin is no more agony than opening your hand.

Fox News is hated because they're elitists, and the worst winners television's ever seen.

We are all predisposed to disease if we mismanage our genes.

I think massive migration is inevitable. As sea levels rise, as climate change happens, as fertile fields become arid, as wars are fought, people are going to move. They always have.

I see the things and people and events in my daily world as an endless succession of paintings.

L.A. to me feels like music industry, and Nashville to me feels like music community.

There are no beginnings, not even to stories. There are only places where you make an entrance into someone else's life and either stay or turn and go away.