Finishing a book is just like you took a child out in the back yard and shot it.

She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo.

Failure is the condiment that gives success its flavor.

A conversation is a dialogue, not a monologue. That's why there are so few good conversations: due to scarcity, two intelligent talkers seldom meet.

I believe more in the scissors than I do in the pencil.

The wind is us-- it gathers and remembers all our voices, then sends them talking and telling through the leaves and the fields.

Anyone who ever gave you confidence, you owe them a lot.

I love New York, even though it isn't mine, the way something has to be, a tree or a street or a house, something, anyway, that belongs to me because I belong to it.

When you've got nowhere to turn, turn on the gas.

Well, I'm about as tall as a shotgun, and just as noisy.

A man who doesn't dream is like a man who doesn't sweat. He stores up a lot of poison.

You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

The city shall be cleared of any dirt, if every community acts collectively.

When one wants to change manners and customs, one should not do so by changing the laws.

I believe that we live in a time of fractured families where maybe fathers aren't getting enough time to see their kids because life's complications and hardships get in the way of those things.

Even if surrounded with explanations, Auschwitz can never be grasped.

There are a lot of people who pretend to have moral ethics and they talk from both sides of their mouth.

I have been a ballerina, a cheerleader and a sorority girl. I was the girliest girl alive.

[Obama's reelection] would subject the country to what might be a fatal last dose of statism.

You draw on your own childhood every time you tee it up as an actor.

It has been estimated that 80 percent of the oil illegally smuggled out of Iraq under oil for food ended up in the United States.