Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.

People never know how strong is their lust for being cheated.

We can see, so we are always blind to things deeper than skin.

Remember, things extremely hard to come by are not necessarily good.

It always takes awfully long time to understand unbelievably simple things.

Those who abhors democracy would rarely immigrate to an authoritarian state if they have to.

The sincerity of the art worker must permeate the song as naturally as the green leaves break through the dead branches in springtime.

The deep fascination with the mysterious and the impulse to seek and locate ourselves in the cosmic context seems to be imprinted in our DNA and psyches.

I think one of the major results of the psychology of decision making is that people's attitudes and feelings about losses and gains are really not symmetric. So we really feel more pain when we lose $10,000 than we feel pleasure when we get $10,000.

These have always been my legs. I train harder than other guys, eat better, sleep better and wake up thinking about athletics. I think that's probably why I'm a bit of an exception.

Well, here's the thing with relationships on 'True Blood': Once they happen then you have to throw a monkey-wrench into them, because to have people be happy is not that exciting.

Face your fears, pursue your ambitions, and become the hero you are destined to be.

Gatherings and, simultaneously, loneliness are the conditions of a writer's life.

You have to hit the fastball to play in the big leagues.

Children enhance you.

I found that looking at the Israeli/Palestinian conflict from an outside vantage point was actually quite distancing. The history of the conflict, the personalities, the violence, the distrust, and the seeming lack of viable solutions made meaningful involvement feel impossible. What changed that, for me, was changing the vantage point.

Patients who trust their doctors and have a psychological expectation of getting better could trigger a reaction in their body.

It must surprise people that I'm such a rap fan, but it's true. Sometimes, just staying in, putting on some rap music, and letting loose is all I need to have a good time.

I just filmed a movie with my boyfriend, an indie film called 'Conception.' And it's kind of like an R-rated version of 'Valentine's Day.' So it's like all about eight couples, and me and my boyfriend play one of them together. And that was a lot of fun.

Never treat anything you do as a stepping stone. Do it fully, and follow it completely.

I wish records got made faster and looser with less thought in them, but since touring is so much more profitable than records, you spend so much time on the road that it's hard to work on them. And the records get further and further apart.

I was always musical - yelling when I was a baby, singing into a brush and singing in the shower.

Hackathons are these things where just all of the Facebook engineers get together and stay up all night building things. And, I mean, usually at these hackathons, I code too, just alongside everyone.

I wanted to do different movies. I wanted to do deeper movies. More human movies based on human feelings.

It never entered my father's mind nor my mind ever to do a job othe than at one's best ability.

When guys talk about sex, eyebrows don't get raised. It's different for girls.

I think success is finding happiness! Everyone certainly has different goals in life, and things that are important to them, and also things that are not important to them.

I'm Irish, yeah, but I don't need to get up on a soapbox about it.

Celebrity culture has gone crazy, and I think the reason is that real news is just not bearable, and it also seems impossible to change anything.

I've done illustration on the side. But other than that, comics have been my main things.