There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

There's something strange and powerful about black-and-white imagery.

Sorrows cannot all be explained away in a life truly lived, grief and loss accumulate like possessions.

They are the literary equivalent of sequins on an evening dress.

An aphorism is a personal observation inflated into a universal truth, a private posing as a general.

I don't really take into account what the media says. People have their own opinions about what goes on, but they don't see what goes on behind the scenes with an athlete and their preparation.

How bright and beautiful a comet is as it flies past our planetprovided it does fly past it.

North America was ready for something other than a vanilla cooking show and we were providing the double dark chocolate fudge.

I am not bound for any public place, but for ground of my own where I have planted vines and orchard trees, and in the heat of the day climbed up into the healing shadow of the woods.

One thing that's unique to 'Uncharted' is something called 'chasing picture,' where Naughty Dog run a section of gameplay and I'm allowed to ad-lib over it. We call it 'panning for gold.'

Run like you stole something.

I'm not a perfectionist. I'm just very observant.

I work very hard at creating complex characters, a mix of positives and negatives. They are all flawed. I believe flaws are almost universal, and they help us understand, sympathise and, paradoxically, feel closer to such characters.

To reform a man you must begin with his grandmother.

Only on the Internet can a person be lonely and popular at the same time.

I've thrown away lots of my old diaries - you never know who might get their hands on them. But I have kept a few notes on the good old days.

Why does your mind conform? Have you ever asked? Are you aware that you are conforming to a pattern? It doesn't matter what that pattern is, whether you have established a pattern for yourself or it has been established for you.

Ask yourself if these Democrats still speak for you. When they say we have a duty to grow government even when we can't afford it, does it sound like compassion to you - or recklessness?

We are one people with one family. We all live in the same house... and through books, through information, we must find a way to say to people that we must lay down the burden of hate. For hate is too heavy a burden to bear.

Hackers are actually good pleasant and extremely intelligent people who could keep computer criminals on the run.

The bill would ban human cloning, and any attempts at human cloning, for both reproductive purposes and medical research. Also forbidden is the importing of cloned embryos or products made from them.

I respect the people who buy my records and come to my concerts. It's only fair that I always try to give them the very best that's in me. After all, I need them more than they need me.

I'm on the path to being someone I'm equally terrified by and obsessed with. My true self.

We are Christians by the same title as we are natives of Perigord or Germany.

I have to be honest - I don't love guns.

We lost everything. We even won our own constituency.

Work sucks. That's why it isn't called fun.

The time I burned my guitar it was like a sacrifice. You sacrifice the things you love. I love my guitar.

Once I made a boyfriend dress up as Woody Allen from 'Annie Hall.'