It becomes an emperor to die standing.

It becomes an emperor to die standing.

The body of a dead enemy always smells sweet.

What kind of people will these ghettos of Palestinians produce? What form of morality, national consciousness and hope will people be left with after so many years of stifling occupation and a sense of hopelessness?

Dreams say what they mean, but they don't say it in daytime language.

I have members of my family who are in the military. I have friends who are in the military. Classmates who served in the military.

To put what you see on paper is the same as funneling what you feel through yourself as a performer.

I think you always try to put the offense in the best position to make good plays, which usually requires us to move multiple people around and give them an opportunity to impact a game in a lot of different ways.

When you are overworked and exhausted, there is a sense of kind of delirium and that's why I think architects do all-nighters and they kind of do those deadlines. For four days I remember doing four nights in one row with no sleep. I mean nobody, unless you are crazy, would do that, but you are totally focused on the project.

The freedom of thought and expression is one of the most sacred rights in this country.

Stripped of all their masquerades, the fears of men are quite identical: the fear of loneliness, rejection, inferiority, unmanageable anger, illness and death.

Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching.

You know youre putting a good thing out into the universe when you put on glitter.

My cousin cleaned out a shotgun for me and let me carry it around the house, because he said, 'Anybody who knows anything about guns is going to know in a second if someone has held a gun before.' I didn't want to be that person. I wanted to be practiced.

Public opinion, a vulgar, impertinent, anonymous tyrant who deliberately makes life unpleasant for anyone who is not content to the average person.

There is so much indifference in the face of suffering. May we overcome indifference with concrete acts of charity.

A certain amount of anger doesn't make us less empathetic, less humane, less loving. It just makes us real.

My father knew my husband long before I ever did. He actually always says that he loved him first... there really was this wonderful respect and admiration between the two of them before I even came into the picture.

I still am very street - I just have nicer clothes. I'm not ashamed of that.

Mankind at its most desperate is often at its best.

When I'm at a show, I'm there to have fun. Let's just not care for a moment. So this cake in your face is to make you lose your mind. And it's not about caring about whatever you are wearing and caring what other people are thinking about you. Out of the context, I'm trying to develop something else.

The ultimate wisdom which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls faith rather than reason.

People are out there saying we have to devalue our properties because of the Internet, but it hasn't even come into play!

We have to learn not to feel guilty about letting our imagination browse around, and you know, in writing fiction particularly. But I think, in any kind of writing, we have to learn to allow ourselves to approach it in a contemplative way.

They call it lingerie. I call it sensual innovation.

Stop pretending there's anything wrong with businesspeople hiring diligent laborers who will work for less. Let employers sponsor any worker and argue for why that worker should be given citizenship. Such a vetting mechanism would naturally promote the best and hardest-working.

Theres nothing worse than a brilliant beginning.