Be careful what you're doing, because no one is ever who you want them to be. And the less you really know them, the more likely you are to confuse them with the girl or boy in your head.

Luckily, I always travel with a book, just in case I have to wait on line for Santa, or some such inconvenience.

I'm told there's no going back. So I'm choosing forward.

I hope suffering don't exist.

With all due respect, if you’re forty-three, then I’m a fetus.

It is much harder to lie to someone's face.But.It is also much harder to tell the truth to someone's face.

It's up to you, not fate.

The world was full of waistrels and waifs, sycophants and spies - all of whom put words to the wrong use, who made everything that was said or written suspect

One couldn’t be selective when remembering the past. Ignore the turmoil, chaos and pain – and the truly great memories would not shine with such luster.

No. No more surprises. No more secrets. Or so help me, I will rip off your own leg and beat you with it.

They said, "Will You place upon it one who causes corruption therein and sheds blood, while we declare Your praise and sanctify You?

Chemistry is the dirty part of physics.

Don’t try to be an artist. Find the thing within you that needs to be expressed. You might find it is art.

I cried myself to sleep wishing I was ugly because men leered and disrespected me, because they assumed things about my mental capacity or my physical willingness based on the way I look.

My first words were 'Seconds, please.' Most kids in kindergarten napped on a little rug. I had a braided 9 x 12.

Kingsley, ever the joker, had his Venator mark tattooed near his unmentionables

Films can only be made by by-passing the will of those who appear in them, using not what they do, but what they are.

Let's change the way we eat, let's change the way we live, and let's change the way we treat each other.