Thus the little mermaid learned her world’s greatest paradox: that their currency was beauty, and their coin was body parts.

It seemed only right that beauty was the key to the industry, and the sacrificing of beauty to buy possessions seemed only fair to her evolving mind.

Music, it seemed, could appear in many voices, and had all of the emotions and array of vocabulary as a human..

I brought you here to tell you this: sometimes what we are searching for does not exist. We may sacrifice for it, even bleed for it, but it was never meant to be ours.

No one can usurp the heights...But those to whom the miseries of the worldAre misery, and will not let them rest.

If only youcould see me as the Devil does: palatable & raw

But he was sixty-two when I was, born, and the novelty of daughters had worn away long before.

For 30 years, which I never talked about in Hollywood, I actually worked with doctors lecturing and doing some medical intuitive counseling both in a medical setting and for the community at large.

You always got to be happy when somebody likes what you do. It's stupid not to be happy.

If every man could act as he chose, the whole of history would be a tissue of disconnected accidents.

Power is being told you're not loved and not being destroyed by it.

Data scientists are statisticians because being a statistician is awesome and anyone who does cool things with data is a statistician.

I always thought that my canine family tended to view me as the funny-looking two-legged dog who runs the can opener.

There is no singing anymore, everything is yelling and shouting and rapping and that is real boring to a guy like me.