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Even when we do not actively participate in our destiny, we are still on a chosen path. Life has a way of making decisions for us.

I have gained this by philosophy … I do without being ordered what some are constrained to do by their fear of the law.

Time travel is a wonderful thing, isn't it?

About 40 years ago I had an experience where I wrote a tract.

The journey to understanding begins with a leap of faith.

God is only a word dreamed up to explain the world

I'm a bit embarrassed about how little I know about the First World War. I didn't even know that tanks were used in it.

I know that I am a singer and an actor, yet in order to give the public the impression that I am neither one nor the other, but the real man conceived by the author, I have to feel and to think as the man the author had in mind.

I just let the songs tell me what to do - they are my guides, and they are the boss. So I am subservient to the songs, and I let them tell me what to do. I don't judge them; I just write whatever comes to me.

Nature is a catchment of sorrows.

I'm an anarchist. I have it tattooed on my stomach.

I know that New York is big - there are huge buildings - but, in fact, it's quite small and contained... I like it when cities are melancholic. When it started snowing, for example, I felt very lonely. I felt very comfortable and very relaxed. When that happens, I write. So I've been writing, not a lot, but I'm inspired every day.

I have, with great intentionality, a demeanor that I hope is welcoming for people to not be afraid to talk to me or, you know, ask me a question.

Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I've never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year-old schoolgirl.

In order to sharpen its prediction skills, our brains constantly build models, or 'templates,' of the world. The better the template, the better the performance. And now we know playing action video game actually fosters better templates.

A severed foot is the ultimate stocking stuffer.

I have a lot of friends who are involved in everything from Americana to blues to R&B to pop to country.

I'm not a wealthy person because I was never a star. I was a working actor and a supporting actor.

On the Northern Ireland question, for instance, the British and Irish governments prohibit media contact with members of the IRA, but we have always gone ahead, believing in the right to information.

I didn't know a soul when I got to New York, and I felt really displaced. The first week I was euphoric, and then I realized how isolating the city can be.