I don't know what you're going through life doing if you're not really trying to collect some really great memories.

Life is too short to miss out on the beautiful things like a double cheeseburger.

I had people in my life who were insane and negative, but they taught me how not to be, how I didn't want to end up.

Someday you'll miss her like she missed you. Someday you'll need her like she needed you. Someday you'll love her and she won't love you.

I think that the divorce rate's over 50% for a reason. I don't think people are taking enough time now to really see if they can make it work and live together.

I have a theory that as nice and sweet as you can be equates to how dangerous you can be.

Everyone's a nerd inside. I don't care how cool you are.

Just relax and really say what you're actually thinking, and not what you think people want to hear.

Sometimes a thong completely betrays you.

I sort of became infatuated with soldiers. I got to know some of them and got a little perturbed with Hollywood making a spectacle out of them and making them look like they have screwed up somehow.

I auditioned for a Pepsi commercial, and I got it, and that was incredibly fun. So I thought, Well, maybe I should try this acting thing.

Grace is gladness of existence.

Modern anxiety is expressed in the longing for what most people fear, even as modern grief is expressed in the unconsummated mourning for what they never really had.

Sometimes the only way to fix a mistake- is to make it twice.

There's a very go-to kind of attitude in New Zealand that stems from that psyche of being quite isolated and not being able to rely on the rest of the world's infrastructure.

It's true that writing is a solitary occupation, but you would be surprised at how much companionship a group of imaginary characters can offer once you get to know them.

And we just went with Julie because that name hadn't been used in any other popular songs at the time.

In England and Europe, we have this huge music called ambient - ambient techno, ambient house, ambient hip-hop, ambient this, ambient that.

Wit does not take the place of knowledge.

For eager teachers seized my youth, pruned my faith and trimmed my fire. Showed me the high, white star of truth, there bade me gaze and there aspire.

I also had a huge crush on William Holden. I would go to see William Holden's movies alone - I didn't want to be with anybody. I just wanted to be with him.