Whether love of friend, love of country, love of God, or even love of enemy—love reveals to us the truly miraculous nature of the human spirit.

I leapt eagerly into books. The characters’ lives were so much more interesting than the lonely heartbeat of my own.

I felt as if I were riding a pendulum. Just as I would swing into the abyss of hopelessness, the pendulum would swing back with some small goodness.

Sometimes there is such beauty in awkwardness.

Andrius, I'm...scared." He stopped and turned to me. "No. Don't be scared. Don't give them anything Lina, not even your fear.

He threw his burning cigarette onto our clean living room floor and ground it into the wood with his boot. We were about to become cigarettes.

Decisions, they shape our destiny.

A wrongdoing doesn't give us the right to do wrong.

Some things just won’t go away, no matter how hard you scrub.

What do you do with all this bank, Josie? Be a lot easier if you just lifted your skirt.” “The only reason I’d lift my skirt is to pull out my pistol and plug you in the head.

Tragedy was a big social event, and everyone wanted in on it.

In order to pick something up, you've got to put something down.

If the enemy looks just like you, how do you fight him?

Don't work for recognition, but do work worthy of recognition.

We are pantheists as natural scientists, polytheists as poets, and monotheists as moral beings.

Science is perhaps the only human activity in which errors are systematically criticized and, in time, corrected.

I'm passionate about old people because I am one myself.

I call Sally Field 'America's Mother!' She is incredible to watch.

You know, I've released some great records and I've released some dogs. But frankly, the fun is in creating the thing.

I never thought of having platinum albums and winning awards. I just wanted to write songs and sing when I started out in the music business.