First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.

I don't mean to be presumptuous that men don't feel this, I don't mean this, but I found that when my child was born, my first child, it felt like my heart broke.

I'm not quite ready for a no makeup movie.

What happens, matters. Maybe only to us but it matters.

I live by a hill. I began walking it and then I began jogging it and then I began sprinting it.

I don't do T&A very well because I haven't got much of either.

I feel better. I feel hornier. I feel more womanly and more accomplished and prouder. [after having her daughter]

I don't find glamour and clothing relevant.

Yes, I guess I am bi-coastal.

I dress up for awards, but only if somebody else is going to pay for the clothes. And shop for them, too!

In your teens, you think you know everything, and you know nothing. By your thirties, you're sure you know nothing, but you're happy with that.

Progress is only possible if the United States and its allies work together.

Russia will have much greater respect for America when I'm leading than when other people have led it. You will see that. Russia will respect our country more.

I used to be a partier, now I'm an alcoholic. It's all in who's judging you.

The image of ourselves in the minds of others is the picture of a stranger we shall never see.

I'm busier than a busy person. People aren't scared to play this raucous, harsh music over radio speakers, so I think it's the perfect time to get in with some real serious, heavy bands.

Thank God for our form of government. The media won't let there be any cover-up.

The awareness is not part of the darkness or the pain; it holds the pain, and knows it, so it has to be more fundamental, and closer to what is healthy and strong and golden within you.

From myself I am copper, through you, friend, I am gold. From myself I’m a stone, but through you, I am a gem!

Deign on the passing world to turn thine eyes, And pause a while from learning to be wise. There mark what ills the scholar's life assail,- Toil, envy, want, the patron, and the jail.

When I am writing a story it feels as real as the life I am experiencing off the page. It's an emotional illusion, I guess.