I didn't mean to hurt her.

I was trying to spare her any further stress(...)I wasn’ttrying to be deceitful.

I am only yours, my Luna. I was yours from my first breath and I will be yours until my last.

I am wholly, ardently, unabashedly in love with you.

Slowly, all the days became Saturdays, full of more sunlight than I could remember seeing in a long time.

I - and I still consider myself, I'm sorry to tell you, a Marxist and a Communist, but I couldn't help noticing how all the best Marxist analyses are always analyses of a failure.

I read the same amount of nonfiction and fiction.

No longer can we be satisfied with a life where the heart has its reasons which reason cannot know. Our hearts must know the world of reason, and reason must be guided by an informed heart.

Gorbachev was acutely aware of the [USSR] economic problems, and it was central to all he did. He wanted to change the system in hopes of saving it. In the end he could not.

Five years from now I'm probably going to look back on the things I'm doing and cringe.

As the lead of a movie, you really set the tone off-camera as well, and that's a really big responsibility.

Poetry is the work of the bard and of the people who inspire him.

Feminism is just a way for ugly women to get into the mainstream of America.

I am not a politician and I have no intention of being one.