The ugliest thing in the world is a beautiful woman without the brains or courage to know that [beauty] is nothing more than an accident.

There's nothing weak about beauty, child. The only weakness in it is if you think it means anything important.

We oft know little of who we were, only something of who we are, and nothing of who we may be.

By no longer relying on approval from others for (false) reassurance or acceptance, you access a Divine channel of freedom.

Those born blind cannot see; similarly blind are those in the grip of lust. Proud men have no perception of evil; and those bent on acquiring riches see no sin in their actions.

It's kind of like I'm Phil Spector and I'm forcing a young girl to make pop music and perform exhaustively. Except, instead of it being someone else, that girl is also me.

In parallel with the development of my interests in technical gadgetry I began to acquire a profound love of and respect for the natural world which motivates my scientific thinking to this day.

In order to be an artist, one must be deeply rooted in the society.

You have to get beyond your own precious inner experiences.

Lucky is the spouse who dies first, who never has to know what survivors endure.

I am glad I worked on a newspaper because it made me know I had to write whether I felt like it or not.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

I think in particularly with young kids who don't have a lot of positive influences, pop culture almost becomes a larger part of that self-discovery and how you define yourself.