When I was in Japan on tour in 2010, I felt like I was 30 years into the future. I love technology and they are so advanced with their phones, computers, everything. I think they had the iPhone way before we did in the U.S. I love gadgets, games, social media and I try to stay ahead on all that stuff, but they get it all first.

Even under the best of circumstances, the road back from war is difficult.

Ron Wyden

I listen to music constantly while writing.

Orson Scott Card

Experience is a dim lamp, which only lights the one who bears it.

LouisFerdinand Celine

When you cease to dream you cease to live.

Malcolm Forbes

The beautiful thing about hip-hop is it's like an audio collage. You can take any form of music and do it in a hip-hop way and it'll be a hip-hop song. That's the only music you can do that with.

Talib Kweli

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

Herbert Agar

Dwight is a sad clown. You've seen those paintings of sad clown.

Rainn Wilson

Marriage isn't a process of prolonging the life of love, but of mummifying the corpse.

P. G. [Sir Pelham Grenville] Wod

You say it is the good cause that hallows even war? I tell you: it is the good war that hallows every cause.

Friedrich Nietzsche

To get power over is to defile. To possess is to defile.

Simone Weil

One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.

Padma Lakshmi

Love, you are eternal like springtime.

Juan Ramon Jiminez