there were people who occupied telephone booths as though they had rented them for the day.

blackmail. The age-old path to the land of milk and honey. The one sure way of being paid for doing nothing.

who was the cynic who had defined gratitude as thanks for favors to come?

I don't have expensive tastes – just bloody ones.– Vampire Dragul Mangorian

You thought you knew what food was, you thought it was elemental. You forgot how much restaurant there was in restaurant food and how much home was in homemade.

She glanced outside at the sky, filled with clouds and smog. All the pollution, all that hell—even the stars didn’t stand a chance.

One Spirit Medicine opens the doors to the invisible matrix of wisdom where everything is intertwined, where every thought we have impacts every cell in our body and every molecule in the cosmos.

One of the biggest challenges in my job is letting go of the movie once you go home at night, and knowing you can't do anything to your performance once you've laid it on film.

And I say north is where I want it to be!

It is our responsibilities, not ourselves, that we should take seriously.

It took me twenty years to discover painting: twenty years looking at nature, and above all, going to the Louvre.

If I fail more than you do, I win.

If you want to be an athlete, then getting good grades, going to college, and developing your intellectual skills are important.