Whistling tunes we're kissing baboons in the jungle.

People have the strength to overcome their bodies. Their beauty is in their minds.

Dream big and surround yourself with brilliance, even if you end up dressed up like a flower or a sexually transmitted disease.

Surround yourself with brilliance.

I hold the line, the line of strength that pulls me from the fear.

From the pain come the dream From the dream come the vision From the vision come the people From the people come the power From this power come the change.

Music is a spiritual doorway. ... Its power comes from the fact that It plugs directly into the soul.

Words, they climb all over you/'Til they uncover you From where you hide.

Whenever there's a camera around, a video or film camera, it's a great deal harder for those in power to bury the story.

Deadlines are things that we pass through on the way to finishing.

Self-conscious, uncertain, I'm showered by the dust. But the spirit enters into me and I submit to trust.

I love the ground under his feet, and the air over his head, and everything he touches and every word he says. I love all his looks, and all his actions and him entirely and all together.

The mind reaches great heights only by spurts.

I was never trained for anything

We've investigated the gun lobby and its political donations and how it spread the Stand Your Ground laws from Florida.

Without music in a horror there is actually such a big part missing.

I played football with my whole body - My hands, my head, my face. I did it all.

A thing of beauty is a joy till sunrise.

To be honest, I want readers to be wrung out. As a novelist, I don't have a political agenda or specific philosophy; I'm trying to create a gut-wrenching, intimate, memorable experience.

Losing does not make you a failure; it is when you blame someone for losing when you become a failure

The task of asking nonliving matter to speak and the responsibility for interpreting its reply is that of physics.