“I don’t invest in rich kids’ businesses.”

Physical pain is a fact that comes with living, just as illness or financial woes or broken relationships are facts. But misery is a state of mind, a reaction to the facts, that can be controlled or altered by an act of will.

My abortion was so long ago I didn’t think I needed help. I hoped God had forgiven me but I hadn’t realized I didn’t forgive myself. After attending this safe, nurturing group I know that I am forgiven and set free.

Your appearance can be a weapon. As powerful as any knife or gun.

Pain nourishes courage. You can’t be brave if you’ve only had wonderful things happen to you.

Pain is inevitable. Misery is optional.

An enlightened citizen is an indispensable ingredient of the infrastructure of democracy.

Clutter is postponed decisions.

You have to be quite heavily invested in someone to do them the honour of telling them you’re annoyed with them.

Stop spending your time; start investing your time.

We don’t know how many Russian oligarchs have invested in his business.

It’s society that disables an individual by not investing in enough creativity to allow for someone to show us the quality that makes them rare and valuable and capable.

Invest in basic research and recruit the best minds.

The hardest thing as an actor is that you work really hard constantly for these roles, and you invest so much in it.

I do think that sometimes you can invent more palatable or digestible reasons versions or reasons, when perhaps you don’t want to admit the truth to yourself, and sometimes we deceive ourselves – along with others – about our reasons and motives.

Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.