See Spot run!' is a perfect sentence in some ways. But I doubt the critics would say it was.

I will do those things which make me happy today and which I can also live with ten years from now.

The Terrible Truth is that brutality is part of human nature, and all the laws in the world can't neuter it.

Just because you will not see the work completed does not mean you are free not to take it up.

Sooner or later. It had better be sooner. Later is like the horizon; it recedes as you approach.

Man is the universe becoming conscious of itself.

Any person who wants to govern the world is by definition the wrong person to do it.

Some things we must pass over in silence.

When everything is at risk, good judgment, not haste, makes the difference between life and death. Panic is the enemy.

Experiences are like hoarded gold. Whenever I dole out a piece of my private suffering, that is when I get letters from all over the world.

...the larger world lay not across oceans but within the human mind and heart.

Let your actions be the answer to criticism.

I think there is a difference between aloneness and loneliness. Aloneness is necessary for the soul to thrive - even to come alive. Not loneliness.

All talk of women's rights is moonshine. Women have every right. They have only to exercise them.

I work as my father drank.

I recorded a song called, I Fall to Pieces, and I was in a car wreck. Now I'm worried because I have a brand-new record, and it's called Crazy!

Reason dies collapsing under its own load.

Better than a long speech is a single quietening word.

It's exciting to get to write characters that love each other and fight for each other.

Reworking other tracks is also quite cool.

[Democratic National Convention] was high, it was exciting. The hotel that I stayed at, they had music in the lobby and [Hillary] Clinton life size cutouts.