The universe is not harmonious: you know that by looking outside.
I never have searched for a subject. They always just come along. They never come by way of decision-making. They just haunt me. I can't get rid of them. I did not invite them.
The universe is monstrously indifferent to the presence of man.
I think it is a quest of literature throughout the ages to describe the human condition.
I'm simply not afraid. It's not in my dictionary of behaviour.
We need three kinds of pitching: left handed, right handed, and relief.
What counts aren't the number of double plays, but the ones you should have had and missed.
I've turned down a lot of arena dates because I've done the big-arena thing. Now, I want to do something where people can feel me and I can feel them.
I decided long ago never to walk in anyone's shadow; if I fail, or if I succeed at least I did as I believe.
I have priorities. Maintaining my daughter is my first.
I think over the years, being a mother, I've matured in so many ways.
What's in your soul is in your soul.
My mother was the first singer I had contact with. She sang constantly to us around the house, in church.
No one makes me do anything I don't want to do.
I am not self-destructive. I am not a person who wants to die.
In grammar school some of the girls had problems with me. My face was too light. My hair was too long. It was the black-consciousness period, and I felt really bad.
I'm the kind of person, if, if I have a day that is nerve-wracking, or my week has been bad or something's going down, I won't eat. Some people eat, I don't eat. And it shows in my physical frame.
How a person masters his fate is more important than what his fate is.
It is usually more important how a man meets his fate than what it is.
Language makes infinite use of finite media.
I enjoyed 'The OC' immensely but I want to expand my horizons more before repeating myself.