Today at school I wrote an essay about Flag Day which was so beautiful, but ever so beautiful - for I even used words without really knowing what they meant.

But don't forget, in the meantime, that this is the season for strawberries. Yes.

Everything in the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born.

It is because I dove into the abyss that I am beginning to love the abyss I am made of.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

The only truth is that I live. Sincerely, I live. Who am I? Well, that's a bit much.

Do you ever suddenly find it strange to be yourself?

Do you know that hope sometimes consists only of a question without an answer?

There it is, the sea, the most incomprehensible of non-human existences.

Her curiosity instructed her more than the answers she was given.

Who has not asked himself at some time or other: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?

Remember my friend, that knowledge is stronger than memory, and we should not trust the weaker

Hope is certainty.

Seeing images of violence - it's always about how somebody's going to kill you.

The Indians said the bones were those of a race of people ... three times the size of a man.

My feet are completely flat, but for most of my life they were still shaped like feet. Now, thanks to bunions, they're shaped more like states, wide boring ones that nobody wants to drive through.

A nuclear-power plant is infinitely safer than eating, because 300 people choke to death on food every year.

By sealing our work with our blood, we may see at least the bright dawn of universal happiness.

I'm probably the only person over 40 who does not want to be 22 again.

You can imagine me as a kid growing up in redneck Texas with ballet shoes, tucking the violin under my arm. I had to fight my way up.

I was so fortunate to sing and work with so many amazing performers and artists.