You see, I don't think age matters so much as people think. Parts of me are still 12 and I think other parts were already 50 when I was 12….

Never use abstract nouns when concrete ones will do. If you mean “More people died” don’t say “Mortality rose.

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone?

DNA neither cares nor knows. DNA just is. And we dance to its music.

I needed to survive tonight to keep living my life as if nothing had happened.

O God if in the day of battle I forget Thee do not Thou forget me.

Awareness is without choice, without demand, without anxiety; in that state of mind, there is perception.

You must accept something before you can change it.

It is often our own imperfection which makes us reprove the imperfection of others; a sharp-sighted self-love of others

It is nice to travel the world and sell records and meet fans and that is so much fun. But I want to always remember that music can heal and it can make someone's day.

Black people invented jazz. But this story [in La La Land] wasn't ever claiming to be that. It's just a story about two people from one writer's point of view.

Love who you are and what you are and what you do. Laugh at yourself and at life and nothing can touch you.

Bring into reality the possibility of the improbable by acquiring a positive mental attitude. Say to yourself, as Henry Ford said to his engineers, "Keep working!"