Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

If we let it change us then they will have won

This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist?

Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces

Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

We are your family now

If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

Think of how many boring, blameless lives are brightened by the blazing indiscretion of me.

I think it is very important for any U.S. administration to be clear that America stands on the side of freedom and democracy and respect for individual rights.

Sometimes I wonder if I'm a character being written, or if I'm writing myself.

The true measure of an individual is how he treats a person who can do him absolutely no good.

When I look back I can't believe how my parents managed, but the cliche is true. We didn't have money, but we were rich in so many other ways.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

While my favorite book of short stories is Fredrick Brown's 'Nightmares and Geezenstacks,' my favorite single story is 'Sound of Thunder,' by Ray Bradbury.

One of the advantages of being Captain is being able to ask for advice without necessarily having to take it.

I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.

My mom is just so good with fashion! She always tells me what looks good, what doesn't look good, and she gives me great advice.

Economics is a choice between alternatives all the time. Those are the trade-offs.

The first calculators tended to sell for $400 or $500. Today, you can get a pretty good one for 4 or $5.

Activists measure progress against the standard of perfection, or at least the most perfect possible choice. Historians gauge progress against what came before it.

I'm really interested in vegan nail polishes, because a lot of nail polishes have a lot of toxins in them.

When you write a book for publication, you're writing it for other people to read.

Synergy and serendipity often play a big part in medical and scientific advances.

Big and oppressive government has long been the enemy of freedom, something black Americans know all too well.

In a sense, habits never really disappear. Once formed, they always remain in our neurology.

The thing about the 'Melrose' novels is that I have to feel they're impossible when I set out.

I cuss like a sailor; I smoked cigarettes for many years but quit and have never looked back; also, I ride a motorcycle... in Los Angeles... so there ya go.

I love sleeping in a moving car more than sleeping in bed.

Writing songs has always been hard and easy. It's not always easy when you want it to be, and then sometimes it's just like turning on the faucet. That's just the nature of it.

I'd like to be reincarnated as a French tart. They're so beautiful and delicate - they're like my opposite. I'm more of a comfort food: goat cheese with garlic.

It seemed like my professional life would take a more scientific route. I guess that plan started to become undone when, at the age of 17, I happened upon a screening of Alain Resnais' 'Hiroshima Mon Amour,' and it took my breath away.