The past looks worse the closer you look at it.

People go their whole lives wanting to be admired for their hidden qualities.

Intelligence and effort can be no compensation for ugliness.

I don’t like being left for long struggling with my dangerous self.

Whoever thought that pleasure makes you happy?

I am dust and my story ends here.

Old age is the new childhood.

Act – make an event. Smash the coordinates and see where the smithereens fly. Let in the madness, and be sure to be a danger to oneself and others. Too much thinking turns you into that fool Hamlet.

I’m using Mao as my inspiration. “Cast away illusions. Prepare for struggle.” I’m back in business, baby. You don’t know you’re stuck until you get moving.

do not let anyone inuntil they love you so fiercely, you have no defense against their love.

Now you're dead, and I'm buried.

Expectations are a form of first-class truth: If people believe it, it's true.

If you cross-section anyone's life from one angle and then another, what constitutes goodness looks different each time. It's not an absolute.

I just liked the feeling of being on stage. My parents weren't pushing me, they didn't have to, I was obsessed.

On the basis of both values and interests, the natural relationship between Islam and the United States is one of friendship.

At every moment of our lives we should be trying to find out, not in what we differ with other people, but in what we agree with them.

Impatience for victory guarantees defeat

Listening to people keeps them entertained.

You can't just try to be a performer. It's in your DNA. I really believe that it's either what you are or it's not at all.