The sense of national catastrophe is inevitably heightened in a television age, when the whole country participates in it.

There aren't many poster children for cool angst. Everybody thinks it's cool if you're the bad girl.

I really don't think anything I do is a mistake. It could be if I didn't learn from it.

It's calm under the waves in the blue of my oblivion.

If I respect myself and believe in what I'm doing, no one can touch me.

Rape is the most humiliating thing that can be done to you; it's the most vulnerable that you can be. But once I realized that, I became a stronger person and faced all my fears.

Nothing that you do will ever feel good if you let people convince you that you have no choice.

Everybody sees me as this sullen and insecure little thing. Those are just the sides of me that I feel it's necessary to show because no one else seems to be showing them.

The way I feel about music is that there is no right and wrong. Only true and false.

You fondle my trigger, then you blame my gun

I was screaming into the canyon at the moment of my death; the echo I created outlasted my last breath.

It had always fascinated him that she'd consumed so many words, that her head was full of stories, told a thousand different ways.

Storytellers think they're writing for the audience. They're writing, in a way, to hurt the audience.

The slogan 'press on' has solved and always will solve the problems of the human race.

Maybe more climate activists will think about the climate change not as an international problem to be resolved in an air-conditioned meeting hall, but as a guerilla war to be fought in the streets.

There's always a concern as an actor that you'll be boring unless your character is swinging from a chandelier.

One sound idea is all that you need to achieve success.

Donald Trump is interesting to people. He's intriguing. But they want to see that Donald Trump in the White House. And he's getting there and he's going to pivot there.

For lo, the winter is past, the rain is over and gone; the flowers appear on the earth; the time of the singing of birds is come, and the voice of the turtledove is heard in our land.

The child's toys and the old man's reasons are the fruits of two seasons.

The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.