I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

I am as frustrated with society as a pyromaniac in a petrified forest.

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you.

Our bombs are smarter than the average high school student. At least they can find Kuwait.

I am not a vegetarian because I love animals; I am a vegetarian because I hate plants.

A group of white South Africans recently killed a black lawyer because he was black. That was wrong. They should have killed him because he was a lawyer.

I'm not an athiest. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

The past actually happened but history is only what someone wrote down.

Harry S. Truman had his moods. His birthplace is the only tourist attraction in America where you don't see Japanese with cameras.

I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.

I really didn't have any plans to record prior to doing My Own Best Enemy.

It's hard to believe the life that 'Someone Like You' has taken on. It's proof that people hunger for great songs - and they are open to different interpretations of songs they love.

I think I tend to live in sort of a meta state of existence where I'm always analyzing and analyzing whatever I'm going through at any given moment, and a lot of times I'll reflect back on and go, 'Oh look at that - if I acted this way when that happened, I might not have thought of that that way.'

If we are ever to halt climate change and conserve land water and other resources not to mention reduce animal suffering we must celebrate Earth Day every day at every meal.

I sit in my little office and I feel like I've got all my readers staring at me.

I think, above all, the characters in my novels feel universal to the readers.

Better to have pain than paralysis.

Far from being demeaning to human spiritual values, scientific rationalism is the crowning glory of the human spirit.

There's nothing like the buzz of live theater. You put it out there and receive an instant reaction: laughing, crying, yelling, applauding.

The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are always so certain of themselves, but wiser people are full of doubts.

I say you play a part, you don't work one.

I love that there's this tradition of being able to discuss the heaviest topics and the gnarliest stuff that goes down in people's lives in traditional Southern American music.

Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals.

The girls in my books are out solving their own problems.

My security comes from my senses, my sensing the direction I should go and suddenly I felt out of tune, out of step with what other people wanted or what other people expected of me.

Piano is very elegant. I also think it's a very truthful instrument.

The work which is manipulated looks a little boring to me. I think life is pretty strange anyway. It is wooo, wooo, wooo!

Working in a bipartisan manner, with Congress and the support of the American people, Trump can, in fact, make America great again.

I used to want the words She tried on my tombstone. Now I want She did it.

I am creating the career of my dreams.

Pioneers may be picturesque figures, but they are often rather lonely ones.

Without danger we cannot get beyond danger.... Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Every individual decision is nothing but coincidence, every artistic decision is coincidence.