I do know how to fire a machine gun, so be warned! I'm trained!

Once you get over that peak of puberty, you hit a nice stride.

I think I would make a lousy stay-at-home mom. It just wouldn't suit me.

Yeah, there was the Flora Plum thing, where I trained for about a month and I had taken a semester off for that, and two weeks prior to filming, the financing collapsed.

Autism does exist on a spectrum, and there are so many manifestations of it, so many kinds of expressions of it. And every case is particular.

If you do something that you're not genuinely passionate about, it is a little soul-crushing. Just not worth it.

Growing up in New York City, I was always encouraged to question authority, and I think I confused patriotism with jingoism.

It's funny with jeans now, because if they don't feel like a pair of sweatpants, I don't have patience for them anymore! I think I'm becoming increasingly lazy.

Acting is the greatest answer to my loneliness that I have found.

You don't realize how useful a therapist is until you see yourself on e and discover you have more problems than you ever dreamed of.

Every three seconds in the developing world, a child dies needlessly due to lack of basic health care and other things we all take for granted.

Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

I don't really relax. When I sleep, I relax.

Can Protagonist think of a single film that interests him as much as the three-hundredth best book he ever read?

Charm was the luxury of those who still believed in the essential rightness of things. In purity and picket fences.

There are many roads to Mecca.

They say time is money but really it's not If we ever go broke, then time is all we got And we can't make that back, no you can't make that back

If it's a good book, anyone will read it. I'm totally unashamed about still reading things I loved in my childhood.

I am very suspicious of people.

The most tender place in my heart is for strangers. I know it's unkind, but my own blood is much too dangerous.

Wake up meat head, don't pretend that you are dead.