She must have seen more of my charm than my strangeness tonight.

You wanted to live, " he says."You say that like it's a good thing. A virtue.""What is it really?"I think about this. "Selfish.""Wanting to live is selfish?""Yes.

You have a history of starving yourself, " he says gently.I lift my head. I meet his gaze. "I have a history that I don't like to talk about.

Because blood is blood, and every family has its own force.Its own flavor.Its own charm and strange.

Declare it. Just the same way we declare war. That is how we will have peace... we just need to declare it.

A peaceful mind is the source of all joy and all happiness.

As a deep wound comes to the surface, things can appear worse for a time.

In another land there is gloryIn another land there is happinessIn another land we all get alongIn another land we will stand with others

I call it sacred geometry. When everything's just right and it feels really balanced, so that when it unfolds to the next part, you feel totally familiar and at ease within the song.

With Southern actors you always think you're from the same place. Even if one is from Texas, one is from Georgia, you're like, "oh, you're just down the street, man."

My experience of ships is that on them one makes an interesting discovery about the world. One finds one can do without it completely.

We can choose this moment of crisis to ask and answer the big questions of society's evolution — like, what do we want to be when we grow up?

You get so used to a world that you complain, but never actually want anything different. Why crave the unfamiliar?

One reason people never attempt new things is their fear of failure.