You should be having more fun in high school, exploring things because you want to explore them and learning because you love learning-not worrying about competition.

Sometimes I think creativity is magic; it's not a matter of finding an idea, but allowing the idea to find you.

A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.

I probably have fundamentally antisocial tendencies. I never took one extracurricular activity. I just failed utterly at that level. Part of me still rebels against that.

To fly we have to have resistance.

An artist fights to retain the integrity of a work so that it remains a strong, clear vision. Art is and should be the act of an individual willing to say something new, something not quite familiar.

Our lives are given meaning by our actions-accomplishments made while we are "here" that extend beyond our own time.

If we forget what used to be, then we’ve lost an ability to really be sensitive to our surroundings.

You have to let the viewers come away with their own conclusions. If you dictate what they should think, you've lost it.

I didn't have anyone to play with so I made up my own world.

OK, it was black, it was below grade, I was female, Asian American, young, too young to have served. Yet I think none of the opposition in that sense hurt me.

How come you're so different, I asked once, as we sat in the shade of the pine tree. Yukiko's answer, a sentence learned by heart: Because I fell from a star.

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

Her face collapsed like a bad poem

It is past time for Republican leadership to answer for record deficits and reckless spending, both in Iraq and in the U.S. It's time for a plan to bring our troops home.

Behold the child, by Nature's kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.

Treat each person as you would an old friend.

Where I grew up has had a huge influence on me. It's a place where there aren't many people and there's lots of sky.

Children can be happy when their parents are miserable. But a parent is never happier than her unhappiest child.

In writing for movies, you obviously want to resolve things and have a sense of completion at the end - in an ideal way.

Klonopin is a horrible, dangerous drug.