Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Every orientation presupposes a disorientation.

Culture is a little like dropping an Alka-Seltzer into a glass - you don't see it, but somehow it does something.

Mediocrity in politics is not to be despised. Greatness is not needed.

Pain makes you stronger, fear makes you braver, heartbreak makes you wiser.

It was an hour of sanity with the good guys winning, a situation where the world was right side up.

I'm a hometown girl, and my personality at home is the opposite of the performer in me. But then, when I'm home and haven't done anything for a while, I get really itchy and nervous and weird-feeling.

But once you become active in something, something happens to you. You get excited and suddenly you realize you count.

I love quinoa. It's great, it cooks like rice and is better than caviar.

A common denominator among big guys like me who are trying to take care of our health is that we're not getting enough sleep.

I never see myself as the famous person. It never was a part of my life, and I hope this doesn't become the most eminent thing about what I do. I just hope that I'll do things that have meaning for me and for others somehow.

Find people who believe in you until you can believe in yourself.

My twenties were entirely taken up with literature. Entirely.

In the final analysis, poverty is a condition of helplessness - of inability to cope with the conditions of existence in our complex society.

I'm engaging my diaphragm as I'm speaking to you right now.

Still others commit all sorts of evil deeds, claiming karma doesn't exist. They erroneously maintain that since everything is empty, committing evil isn't wrong. Such persons fall into a hell of endless darkness with no hope of release. Those who are wise hold no such conception.

If I ever took a business public, I wouldn't want to take the shares off the table. I don't want people thinking I'm doing it just to make money and then going to run for the hills. I think that's a very important distinction.

The al-Aqsa compound is occupied territory that, as per the status quo, is administered by the King of Jordan and the Muslim Waqf.

Order is never observed; it is disorder that attracts attention because it is awkward and intrusive.

I came from a house full of books, so I took reading for granted. I was an outdoorsy little kid, too, so I got the best of both worlds by taking books up trees and reading there.

When the judgement's weak, The prejudice is strong.

Spermaceti oil is valued for its high resistance to heat, and thus it is used in machinery where there is excessive heat.

I think we have become obsessed with beauty and personally I'm really saddened by the way women mutilate their faces today in search of that.

I think that's like the age-old psychological core issue for any situation. Anybody who has had an experience with a parent that is absent, it's going to manifest.

College isnt the place to go for ideas.

I'm not a military strategist.

Engineers are all basically high functioning autistics who have no idea how normal people do stuff.

I was, like, this token teen angst child of Broadway. It's so funny. What is that? I don't even know. But I loved it.