You gave me forever within the numbered days.

The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive.

What you must understand about me is that I’m a deeply unhappy person.

Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die.

We need never be hopeless because we can never be irreperably broken.

They love their hair because they're not smart enough to love something more interesting.

Why don’t we break up? I guess I stay with her because she stays with me. And that’s not an easy thing to do.

I wanted to be one of those people who have streaks to maintain, who scorch the ground with their intensity. But for now, at least I knew such people, and they needed me, just like comets need tails.

At some point we all look up and realize we are lost in a maze.

Night falls fast. Today is in the past.

I'm really not up for answering any questions that start with how, when, where, why or what.

Too many cold, hungry nights had taught her a special kind of practicality, but in that moment, she believed in his magic.

Time makes heroes but dissolves celebrities.

You treat violence as an aberration ... when in truth it is the norm. It is the very essence of the human condition.

How you recover from what life's throwing at you is what matters.

The Senate is indeed a deliberative body, and that quality serves the nation well. A slow-moving government helps us maintain a stable government. But slow moving is not the same as immobile.

All the hard work means something. That's all you can really ask for, as an actor.

I never ask Candace Parker if she was thinking about leaving because I never had any reason to believe she would. I just kept the focus on the team and on Candace and the role she played for us.

What's the difference between a politician and a catfish? One is a wide-mouthed, bottom-feeding, slime sucker - and the other is a fish.

Why obliterate the exceptional merely in order to make the outstanding look finer than it was?

Until you are happy with who you are, you will never be happy with what you have.