Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Artists can color the sky red because they know it's blue. Those of us who aren't artists must color things the way they really are or people might think we're stupid.

Jesus died to forgive our sins. Dare we make his martyrdom meaningless by not committing them?

Maturity is only a short break in adolescence.

Getting out of bed in the morning is an act of false confidence.

I grew up to have my father's looks, my father's speech patterns, my father's posture, my father's opinions, and my mother's contempt for my father.

The artwork had very little to do with the thought process, and the writing too, for that matter. What happens, happens, and it happens outside the brain.

I grew up to have my father's looks--my father's speech patterns--my father's posture--my father's walk--my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father.

Governments that block the aspirations of their people, that steal or are corrupt, that oppress and torture or that deny freedom of expression and human rights should bear in mind that they will find it increasingly hard to escape the judgement of their own people, or where warranted, the reach of international law.

I have always been a coward as a child. I am not very brave. I am very aware of the fact that I am not very gutsy.

I don't want to be unapproachable.

I do a lot better if I sit around and think about a character for a couple of months.

I speak at a lot of universities, and people are always worried about Facebook, and when I explain how to use it properly, they immediately go back and make those changes.

I understand what it is for a woman to want to protect their children and give them the best they can.

Girls have always read comics. There's nothing intrinsically masculine about telling stories with pictures.

I was putting songs on Facebook and YouTube just for my friends. When one got over 100 plays, I would do a dance. The first time someone that I didn't know commented, it was a dream come true. A year and a half later, I played 'Fallon.'

Even the photographs of Henri Cartier-Bresson, with all due respect to him, are notoriously burned and dodged.

I was never a Democrat. I went from Republican to Maoist and then back again.

I know that many writers have had to write under censorship and yet produced good novels; for instance, Cervantes wrote Don Quixote under Catholic censorship.

Really, I think that going out and playing with your friends is kind of becoming a lost art, with the kids in the neighborhood.

I'm sorry that it was all so successful. I honestly didn't mean it to happen like that. It's hardly surprising that people grew to hate me.

Every woman in this world wears a little sparkle, some in their dress, and some in their eyes.

Music is just a really fun hobby that I do, because I'm actually really good about writing songs and producing. People don't realize this, but I am an excellent writer for artists.

I consider myself a fearless idiot.

Beauty can pierce one like a pain.

There is no society ever discovered in the remotest corner of the world that has not had something that we would consider the arts. Visual arts - decoration of surfaces and bodies - appears to be a human universal.

Tiger Woods did not always win majors with ease; after his narrow victory in the 1999 PGA, he slumped and sighed as if he'd been carrying rocks uphill all afternoon.

We players understand we have the best lives in the world. We owe a debt of gratitude to all our fans, everyone who supports us.

As a kid, I had a Beatles poster and a Bela Lugosi as Dracula poster, so both worlds always appealed to me. Horror allows you to do things as a composer than you're able to do in no other style of movie. The music has to be aggressive. You can't tiptoe around. It has to be incredibly focused dramatically - no time for second thoughts.

I do enjoy reading some science fiction.

I believe it is my duty as a performer to raise issues in the world of things we're afraid to look at.

If you're a 50-year-old guy, and you're sitting around the house with - you know, and just getting fatter, feeling sorry for yourself, get up and move your body and see what it does to your life and to your mind and to your happiness and to your energy levels. And I get all that from boxing.