He had never heard a name for such a person. Did such a hybrid thing even exist? — Bisexuality

If we let it change us then they will have won

This is not an ending of my choosing. From now on I will choose my own endings

Womanhood... not at all a pretty sight

Promise me that you will not become a politician... promise me you will become a real revolutionary instead.

Choosing instead to step on a landmine and be blown to pieces

Marcus felt that their beauty was not to be trusted. It was a dangerous beauty

We are your family now

If people saw him building a giant pair of silver wings, then they too would believe that they could fly

You cannot break me. You see, I know for certain that my parents were capable of flight

Valentine loved the idea that flight was possible for someone like him. Valentine believed.

This was how they learned their most valuable lesson about death - that after it there is life again, that things that perish will rise again, that after every ending there is another beginning

It is our reality, the way we live now, our truth. So of course we cannot acknowledge it, let alone print it

Finally, the House is working to require a comprehensive federal review of IRS regulations with a follow-up report to Congress on possible actions to reduce the tax paperwork burden imposed on small businesses.

If you actively do something, it will stop making you feel like a victim and you'll start feeling like part of the solution, which is just a huge benefit to your body and your psyche.

I had a weimaraner for 11 years called China, and he was a great dog, a bit mad. They're massive, weimaraners; they've got big floppy ears. They look like a pointer, but they're liver-coloured.

People repeat behaviour that leads to flooding their brains with pleasurable chemicals. The short term reward loop acts over hours to years and the long term reproductive success loop over generations.

'24' had to withstand accusations of being right-wing, but 'Homeland' is a far more liberal show.

It's funny because looking back at my first contest, I was 15 and surfing the Haleiwa contest wearing this tiny bikini. I remember not even thinking twice about wearing it - I just thought it was normal.

My whole premise has been, right from the beginning, that it would take me a lifetime to learn to explain myself as an artist. As you grow older, you learn what to do and what to leave out. You kind of simplify your work and get the same thing done with fewer strokes. It's pretty interesting to me.

Keep the focus of your life in the here and now.

If you look at anyone at the top of their profession, there has to be something a little bit different. Some of the top musicians are quirky aren't they, to say the least. You have to be driven, cold, hard and mentally tough as iron. My missus thinks I'm a bit weird.

There is an increasing market for mental hospital stuff. I am a fool if I don't relive it, recreate it.

Don't compromise even if it hurts to be yourself.

Thankfully, I have a background as an actor, and you learn how to live in that world of not knowing what's going to happen next.

Ideological and political intolerance, even with the best and most sincere intentions, produces results that are the direct opposite of those intended.

In the rest of the industrialized world, your boss can't fire you unless he or she can give a good reason. In America, with certain exceptions, your boss can fire you for any reason at all or for no reason at all.

You can have your own language. You can have your own dialect; you can have your own way of saying things, but if you don't actually understand the way the language fits together, it's chaos.

Shutting down the government is not how you make government work.

I've found even after nearly 30 years of doing this, there are all kinds of new surprises that rear their heads at various times and I truly believe that 51% of the images, success takes place in the darkroom.

The studio is not the place to write. You need to be 75% ready when you go into the studio, and then the music can develop to the next stage.

The hardest thing to find in life is balance - especially the more success you have, the more you look to the other side of the gate. What do I need to stay grounded, in touch, in love, connected, emotionally balanced? Look within yourself.

If it is right for men to fight for their freedom, and God knows what the human race would be like today if men had not, since time began, fought for their freedom, then it is right for women to fight for their freedom and the freedom of the children they bear.

I wasn't there to compete. I was there to win.

I want to show the world that you do have some artists that are ready to go to the next level, and instead of being selfish with their career they'll open up the door to other people. I'm in a position to open up the door to help other people do what I do.

Journalists like to say I started off sweeping the pottery floors. But it was just a short-lived part time job doing that after I left school.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.