eskimos maybe? believed stars were holes in the sky where people who died could peek through at you

Everytime I look at a zebra, I can't figure out whether it's black with white stripes or white with black stripes, and that frustrates me.

Love is not a because, it's a no matter what.

The human capacity for burden is like bamboo- far more flexible than you'd ever believe at first glance.

There are two ways to be happy: improve your reality, or lower your expectations.

There's always going to be bad stuff out there. But here's the amazing thing -- light trumps darkness, every time. You stick a candle into the dark, but you can't stick the dark into the light.

You can't look back - you just have to put the past behind you, and find something better in your future.

Until this moment, I had not realized that someone could break your heart twice, along the very same fault lines.

The wolves knew when it was time to stop looking for what they'd lost, to focus instead on what was yet to come.

If you have a sister and she dies, do you stop saying you have one? Or are you always a sister, even when the other half of the equation is gone?

‎Pick ten strangers and stick them in a room, and ask them which of us they feel sorrier for - you or me - and we all know who they'll choose.

If I didn’t have a job, I might have stayed in bed until I rotted.

Life without faith in something is too narrow a space in which to live.

In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.

A lot of people I make music with are really talented and it doesn't stop at one instrument.

I had the story, bit by bit, from various people, and, as generally happens in such cases, each time it was a different story.

A stunning meditation on the power of escape, and on the cat-and-mouse contest the self plays to deflect its own guilt.

you know...uh I'm a singer... pop singer... i'm white

There comes a time when suddenly you realize that laughter is something you remember and that you were the one laughing.

I never thought I'd be making a living off of acting - it's still kind of a shock for my family and friends to see my face on TV every Wednesday night.

The morphlings from District 6 are in the camouflage station, painting each other's faces with bright pink swirls.