We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

No one is out to get you. It's just that... people are monkeys.

Art is a sense of magic.

There are a lot of movies made for nobody.

The capacity to be intrinsic and vulgar is American.

We have the notion that we exist but we have no way to prove it. 'I am' is the closest foundation we can get.

I love being objected to. It worries me, but I love being objected to.

How many colours are there in a field of grass to the crawling baby unaware of 'green'? How many rainbows can light create for the untutored eye?

Imagine a world alive with incomprehensible objects, and shimmering with an endless variety of movement and innumerable gradations of colour. Imagine a world before the 'beginning was the word.'

Imagine an eye unruled by man-made laws of perspective, an eye unprejudiced by compositional logic, an eye which does not respond to the name of everything but which must know each object encountered in life through an adventure of perception.

Novelists and poets have existed side by side forever.

Poetry is a totally different art than film.

The Hollywood movies are more like novels, and the kinds of films I make are more like poems.

The video maker doesn't easily face a blank page. Because the videomaker can run it either any way, this way or the other way and erase it if they don't like it and so on.

I knew I wanted to be an actress, but I hadn't ever really told anyone. I'd always got quite good grades, so people assumed I would go and do a 'normal' job. My dad took me to my first audition for drama school and picked me up without anyone knowing, really.

Theres nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over.

June 2005 is the five year anniversary of the debut of Battle Pope.

The only difference between the saint and the sinner is that every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

I always wear flat shoes, because I can't walk in anything else.

There is no exit from the circle of ones beliefs.

Bikes and planes aren't about going fast or having fun; they're toys, but serious ones.

The citizens of New Hampshire expect and deserve a government as clean as our mountain streams and as open as our blue skies. Today let us pledge together to make this government - the people's government - clean, open and honest.

The whole process of this record was an education for me as a musician.

Permanent success cannot be achieved except by incessant intellectual labour, always inspired by the ideal.

Thanksgiving after all is a word of action.

Through my unique style of playing, I want to prove that you don't have to conform to be accepted. The greatest value comes from loving yourself for who you are.

Satire is a weapon, and it can be quite cruel.

I wanted to win an SEC championship and a national championship. Those are the main goals.

People know who I am or are fans of 'Chelsea Lately,' and that makes my shows more fun. People know I'm silly and are on board with what I'm bringing to the table. I see the boyfriends who got dragged to the show by their girlfriends, and by the end, they're laughing harder than anybody. That's the best feeling: 'I knew I was going to get you.'

Growing up as a kid, we moved all over the country on a fairly frequent basis, from New Jersey to Texas, California, Illinois... we moved 21 times in my first 17 years.

A clear rejection is better than a fake promise.

The moon was reigning over their world, glowing its full splendor to all those willing to look up.

But I've always attracted attention, it's true, ever since I was very young.

It was my fifth grade teacher who introduced the idea that writing could be more than a hobby for me.

We live in a constant fear that our shortcomings will be exposed to family, to friends and to the world.

Yes I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

It's another myth that dancing distorts or destroys your feet. If you have the right shaped foot to start and a good, strong technique, your feet should be fine.

I consider myself a spiritual atheist. I certainly believe there are forces bigger than ourselves, and that we should be searching, individually, for meaning in our lives. But I don't believe there's a supreme being, an intelligence that created everything.