To become a lapsed Catholic, first go to a Catholic university.

When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you.

I'm tired of being labelled anti-American because I ask questions.

I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you are is the point.

Children reinvent your world for you.

Happiness is the true beauty weapon.

I believe in using words, not fists.

It's important to just keep wanting whatever it is you want and fight for it, desperately.

We stand a chance of getting a president who has probably killed more people before he gets into office than any president in the history of the United States.

It will be great when it's not such a big deal when a woman gets a good job.

Making love is like hitting a baseball. You just gotta relax and concentrate.

Jason hated being an old man.

Only a foolish child would go swimming in the river that swallowed his father.

The two families really don't like each other, except for all us younger cousins because we don't know any better.

You should never act against yourself.

If you don't steal time, time will loot you.

Maybe it is something to do with age, but I have become fonder of poetry than of prose.

I also had a brother who was like me a musician and a composer. A man of great talent, far more gifted than I. He died very young... he killed himself in the prime of his life.

If you're scientifically literate, the world looks very different to you, and that understanding empowers you.

I met Courtney Love and she said she'd like to sleep with me, but she couldn't cos of my "pop-star thing"... so I said to her I couldn't sleep with her either - cos of her 'ugly thing'.

Man is a transitory being, and his designs must partake of the imperfections their author.