I don't know what 15-year-old doesn't have a desire to separate themselves from their parents and prove their independence.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.

Christ change my life.

Until we learn to love everyone in this universe, how can there be peace?

My mother says I didn't open my eyes for eight days after I was born, but when I did, the first thing I saw was an engagement ring. I was hooked.

Not a creature was stirring, not even an elf.

Donald Rumsfeld is the most ruthless man I have ever met? and I mean that as a compliment.

Yet a real artist, I've noticed, will survive anything. (Even praise, I happily suspect.)

Money can buy everything money can buy, which is just a lot of stuff.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

I love my comedy too much to bastardize it with bad romantic comedy.

My basic notion regarding the matter of historical recognition is basically, it's a matter that should be left to the good hands of historians and experts.