Poverty doesn’t give you strength or teach you lessons about perseverance. No, poverty only teaches you how to be poor.

Only in rock music and the literary world you see so many ugly white guys with beautiful women. That says a lot about the women, their character. They're attracted to more than surface.

Religious fundamentalists are unaware that freedom of religion necessarily brings with it the freedom to mock religion.

Everybody likes to have a place to think, to meditate, to eat a burrito.

When you resort to violence to prove a point, you’ve just experienced a profound failure of imagination.

She was in pain and I loved her, sort of loved her, I guess, so I kind of had to love her pain, too.

I didn't know what to say to her. What do you say to people when they ask how it feels to lose everything? When every planet in your solar system has exploded?