In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

What sane person could live in this world and not be crazy?

In so far as one denies what is, one is possessed by what is not, the compulsions, the fantasies, the terrors that flock to fill the void.

The power of the harasser, the abuser, the rapist depends above all on the silence of women.

The only thing that makes life possible is permanent, intolerable uncertainty: not knowing what comes next.

It is good to have an end to journey towards; but it is the journey that matters in the end.

As great scientists have said and as all children know, it is above all by the imagination that we achieve perception, and compassion, and hope.

I certainly wasn't happy. Happiness has to do with reason, and only reason earns it. What I was given was the thing you can't earn, and can't keep, and often don't even recognize at the time; I mean joy.

The children of the revolution are always ungrateful, and the revolution must be grateful that it is so.

Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new.

The important thing is not the finding, it is the seeking, it is the devotion with which one spins the wheel of prayer and scripture, discovering the truth little by little.

I was socially awkward for many years. I stuttered, stammered, talked rubbish. I never take up invites to parties, and I've been invited to very glamorous things, but I never go.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Threats without power are like powder without ball.

I'm a winner, I play to win, I want to make good things go on around me.

Family farms and small businesses are the backbone of our communities.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

We're a country of laws and rules, and the Supreme Court has ruled that life forms are patentable entities.

Starting out in a beginner class and really understanding the fundamentals of yoga is really important.

When I play supernatural characters in 'Ghost Rider' or 'City Of Angels,' the possibilities are limitless. The possibilities are endless, you can do so much with that.

I've honestly been so lucky. I've never had a job where I didn't look forward to being on set in the morning.

It seems only reasonable that the people have a right to know virtually everything about the personality they are buying each time they put their money through the box office.

In becoming an American, from Europe, what one has in common with that other immigrant is contempt for me-it's nothing else but color.

In just about every area of society theres nothing more important than ethics.

Anyone who tries to make a distinction between education and entertainment doesn't know the first thing about either.

The substance of what it means to be a geek is essentially someone who's brave enough to love something against judgment. The heart of being a geek is a little bit of rejection.

It's all grist to the mill

Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they appear to be going, whether they wish to go there, and if so, why, and if not, why not.

He was an innovator, an experimenter, a missionary in bringing the gospel of good cooking to the home table.

My mother's passion for something more, to write a different destiny for a dirt-poor farmer's daughter, was to shape my entire life.

When I have an idea, I turn down the flame, as if it were a little alcohol stove, as low as it will go. Then it explodes and that is my idea.

I started to like blues, I guess, when I was about 6 or 7 years old. There was something about it, because nobody else played that kind of music.

But that's fine, because I like to have control of the ambience.

It depends on who you talk to if I'm part of the establishment or part of the antiestablishment.

The army is under orders to defend every place.