I am a person who goes out without a purse.

When you're young, there's so much that you can't take in. It's pouring over you like a waterfall. When you're older, it's less intense, but you're able to reach out and drink it. I love being older.

There's a lot of conning as part of our society, I think.

Never burn bridges. Today's junior jerk, tomorrow's senior partner.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

Most people think that animals are third-class citizens. Very few people really see animals as "the others" with whom we inhabit this planet. They have equal rights with us.

Don't depend on other people's encouragement. It's never enough and never when you need it.

I'd rather have a small part in a movie I love than a bigger part in one I don't care about.

Usually it's the guys that don't follow you around, who you're attracted to!

Some of the most intense affairs are between actors and characters. There's a fire in the human heart and we jump into it with the same obsession as we have with our lovers.

It's rare when you have everything going perfectly all at the same time.

In difficult situations when hope seems feeble the boldest plans are safest.

You can't get closer to the heart of national sovereignty than national security and intelligence services.

Daily life is both the subject and environment of the work I am making.

It would be asking too much to want to sell only to connoisseurs - that way starvation lies.

Writing is putting one's obsessions in order.

She can never tell him what she started to say: that we come to love those who save us. For although Anna does believe this is true, the word that stuck in her throat was not save but shame.

Immigration has been [Donald] Trump's signature issue throughout his entire presidential campaign, and his supporters love him for it.

If I were a 13-year-old and I wanted to create subversive art, I wouldn't go out and buy an electric guitar. I'd get myself a personal computer.

Can the foot soldier teach anything important about war, merely for having been there? I think not. He can tell war stories.