I believe that quality level is determined primarily by the actual design of the product itself, not by quality control in the production process.

The children to whom we read simple stories may or may not show gratitude, but each boon we give strengthens the pillars of the world.

Most people don't grow up. It's too damn difficult. What happens is most people get older.

Bitterness is like cancer. It eats upon the host. But anger is like fire. It burns it all clean.

We are not just flesh and blood. And our hungers are not going to be set aside as just flesh and blood.

Find something you like, go into a room, close the door and read it aloud. Read it aloud. Everybody in the world who likes dance can see dance, or hear music, or see art, or admire architecture - but everybody in the world uses words who is not a recluse or mute. But the writer has to take these most common things, more common than musical notes or dance positions, a writer has to take some adverbs, and verbs and nouns and ball them up together and make them bounce.

I would ask every man and every woman who's had the blessing of having children, 'Would you deny your son or your daughter the ecstasy of finding someone to love?' To love someone takes a lot of courage. So how much more is one challenged when the love is of the same sex and the laws say, 'I forbid you from loving this person'?