Astronauts and teachers are much more amazing than actors.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

Where lipstick is concerned, the important thing is not color, but to accept God's final word on where your lips end.

My love for ice cream emerged at an early age - and has never left!

You either go along with the system - conform to what is expected to be a hit - or you have very tough going

If you've been married for 400 years, as I have, it's nice to experience first love again and you can vicariously through a book.

All perishable is but an allegory.

I like crazy people, especially those who don't see the risk.

Yeah, that's a luxury to be able to go to a two-hour yoga class! Sometimes I'll just get on the floor and do it for five, ten minutes. Whatever you can get, you just do it.

Friday's a free day. A woman's day.

Nature is full of freaks, and now puts an old head on young shoulders, and then takes a young heart heating under fourscore winters.