We don't get to choose who we love. Or stop loving them when they're difficult.

No matter how safe and beautiful it is, a cage is still a cage.

To enjoy inner joy and happiness, let us use our conscience to create peace and harmony in this world.

Sin/ alienation is psychological disease which if unhealed can lead to the living hell of lost hopes and blighted lives.

I'm more interested in books than people, and I always expect everybody else to be, but they're not.

Getting rewarded for being pregnant when you're a teenager? Are you serious? I mean, that makes me want to kill somebody.

It was a Roman who said it was sweet to die for one's country. The Greeks never said it was sweet to die for anything. They had no vital lies.

I don't purchase records. I do enjoy listening to things like Japanese folk music or Indian music.

Success, and even life itself, wouldn't be worth anything if I didn't have my wife and children by my side. They mean everything to me.

For me, Twitter is a public persona. I don't interact. It's a lousy form for conversation and opinion, but a wonderful propaganda and sloganeering tool. I use it as a one-way street.

I've served on five different juries, and many of them were bonkers in their own way.