For a long time, I had a crazy girl dating habit.

Much of my youth was spent in the parking lot or inside a Dunkin' Donuts.

I've always dreamed of having a year-round haunted house.

You know, I'm from Boston, and in Boston, you are born with a baseball bat in your hand.

The scariest people are usually the sweetest.

Life is a series of avoiding horrible situations until ultimately you're dead. That's how I feel about things.

'Hostel' is that's how I feel about what's going on in Iraq. There's people that just want money and people are being sacrificed for it.

I've always been fascinated by the idea that there's no such thing as evil; it's all in your point of view. To one group a suicide bomber is the antichrist and to one he's a hero.

Anytime you're the first to speak out against something, there's going to be a backlash.

What is important to me is that people know I respect the business of making movies.

I have no tattoos. There's nothing I've even been that into to get a tattoo of it.

You are the monster I claim, mein Herr.

The healing power of charity, bestowed by our Father and made possible by the Atonement of Jesus Christ, can make it virtually impossible for us even to feel emotions common to the natural man.

For me, every hour is grace. And I feel gratitude in my heart each time I can meet someone and look at his or her smile.

I'm blessed and I thank God for every day for everything that happens for me.

People can get information - on entertainment, politics, finance - much easier than before. That will change the way people do business, the way people live.

It's that transformative nature of love and music and yoga that really inspires me.

We prefer knowing to thinking, because knowing has more immediate value.

Nothing keeps me in such awe as perfect beauty; now, there is something consoling and encouraging in ugliness.

I'm from Chicago, so the Chicago working-class poets still mean a great deal to me.

In the spring rain, The pond and the river Have become one.