You shouldn’t be placing hope in our lives, Parvin. That’s my point. I don’t know the answers of the future, but your confidence and hope need to be in God.

Ribbons! Long ones, short ones, ones for every mood." He does a little dance to the singsong rhythm. "Thin ones, thick ones, and ones to tie your shoes!

We're all going to die, all of us, what a circus! That alone should make us love each other but it doesn't. We are terrorized and flattened by trivialities, we are eaten up by nothing.

I don't know who Peter Lorre is. Pathetic, right? It shows you how completely gross and uncultured my generation is.

A lot of people spend their time just floating/ We were victims together but lonely.

Until you value yourself, you can't expect anyone else to do so.

I am proud to be a member of a party that opens its doors to all men--and closes its hearts to none.

In a way I almost feel like the election of Donald Trump has inspired Democrats and progressives and punk rockers in a way that hasn't been seen since Vietnam.

I've never known anyone who was what he or she seemed; or at least, was only what he or she seemed. People carry worlds within them.

It is all too easy to draw conclusions and make sweeping judgments about millions of Muslim women based on fleeting television images. That is not right.

If we'd lost the war, we'd all have been prosecuted as war criminals. And I think he's right. He, and I'd say I, were behaving as war criminals.

But there's a thin line between songwriting and arranging.