Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Schizophrenia demons live in my head.

Quit shouting those rerun songs at me.

I'm not gonna be warded off the joy music bus.

Not life, but good life, is to be chiefly valued.

I was raised in a Baptist household, went to a Catholic church, lived in a Jewish neighborhood, and had the biggest crush on the Muslim girls from one neighborhood over.

Tomorrow doesn't exist, yesterday is gone. The more I remind myself of that, the stronger I feel.

I'm too shy, really to be able to hang out with my heroes for too long.

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Neither praise or blame is the object of true criticism. Justly to discriminate, firmly to establish, wisely to prescribe, and honestly to award. These are the true aims and duties of criticism.

I will be a president in a skirt, but I will wear the pants.

Sarah Palin is a symbol of everything that is wrong with the modern United States. As a representative of our political system, she's a new low in reptilian villainy, the ultimate cynical masterwork of puppeteers like Karl Rove.

At home, we never used to perform pujas every day. But God has always been there in the hearts.

I'm not vain, I'm insecure.

Good teams incorporate teamwork into their culture creating the building blocks for success.

But they who give straight judgements to strangers and to those of the land and do not transgress what is just, for them the city flourishes and its people prosper.

Good ideas are often murdered by better ones.

Whole Foods Market tries to embody all of the principles of conscious capitalism all the time, but like any person or company, we sometimes fall short.

It took me 11 years to struggle through one dumb book, and every day you just want to give up. But you don't find out you're an artist because you do something really well.

I've never seen bad drawing destroy a good idea. On the other hand, I've never seen a good drawing save a bad idea.

When you live in the light of eternity your values change.

Problems are only opportunities in work clothes.

I have found that I get a better reaction from people once I am less bothered about their reaction.

Iteration, like friction, is likely to generate heat instead of progress.

Mark Twain was very unhappy with himself for various reasons. He was very unhappy with America of this time. He thought it was terrible we had no anti-lynching laws, and he was also a feminist, and he was also very concerned with anti-Semitism. He was a good man, but he was hard on himself.

I never used to like how big my hands were because I hadn't grown into them yet.

On some peculiar pigmented cells found in two mosquitoes fed on malarial.

He was interviewed in the early '60s by a young novelist, Pati Hill.