Having a vote once every four years is not the same thing as democracy.

It's a basic truth of the human condition that everybody lies. The only variable is about what.

I am a coffee fanatic. Once you go to proper coffee, you can't go back. You cannot go back.

Screenwriting is the most prized of all the cinematic arts. Actually, it isn't, but it should be.

To be able to pretend to be something that I'm frankly not is very liberating and exciting.

I run six-to-eight miles a day, plus weights and aerobics in the lunch hour. I also lie a lot, which keeps me thin.

I think that’s the lesson you learn in life. As you get older you realize you’re never going to grow up and you’re never going to be ready. And you may, as well, do things now, don’t wait

Love is a word. A sound. Its association with a particular feeling is arbitrary, unmeasurable, and ultimately meaningless

There is almost no such thing as ready. There is only now.

Every day is the opportunity for a better tomorrow.

Girls are complicated. The instruction manual that comes with girls is 800 pages, with chapters 14, 19, 26 and 32 missing, and it's badly translated, hard to figure out.

We don’t do what we want to

I ate so many Ramen noodles that I wouldn't even touch a package of them now.

Not everything can stand the test of time, but a story can.

Inflation is defined as the quality that makes balloons larger and candy bars smaller.

President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it.

We accept, without sufficient consideration, a system that breeds inefficiencies and actually encourages the creation of shortages.

The Germans sell chemical weapons to Iran and Iraq. The wounded are then sent to Germany to be treated. Veritable human guinea pigs.

Kissing Sinclair was like making out with a sexy timber wolf— he was licking my fangs and nipping me lightly and growling under his breath and it was...oh, it was really something.

The only real security is in having lots of opportunity. But risk is the price to pay for opportunity. And risk is scary.