I don't necessarily consider myself a virgin, probably because I have such a penetrating personality

People are not born heroes or villains; they’re created by the people around them.

A villain is just a victim whose story hasn’t been told.

When people hurt you over and over, think of them like sand paper. They may scratch and hurt you a bit, but in the end, you end up polished and they end up useless.

If you truly own who you are, no one can use you against you.

I couldn't do country, with all due respect to all country music artists. My parents dressed me up with a cowboy hat and we'd go to the rodeo when I was younger and it traumatized me for life.

You can't shy away from your greatness just because you're afraid you're not great enough

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

Courage is one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

To Grandma: Once upon a time, there was a boy who flew.

You don’t get to pick where you’re from, but you always have control of where you’re going.

I suppose if I had to give a one-word answer to the question of why I read, that word would be pleasure. The kind of pleasure you can get from reading is like no other in the world.

True success is overcoming the fear of being successful.

You're beautful. Yes you are, you're very very beautiful. Extremely beautiful.

If I could be doing anything, I'd be laying on the floor in my birthday suit eating junk food and watching something dumb on TV.

Nowadays, with digital printing, it's so easy to make everything perfect, which is not always a good idea. Sometimes the mistakes are really what make a piece.

Directing is really exciting. In the end, it's more fun to be the painter than the paint.

Wild men are so enormously attractive.

We cannot love others as others unless we possess suficient self-love, a love we learn from being loved in infancy.

Get too conceptual, too cute and remote, and your characters die on the page.

HBO exists because people must have a place to say "f***" on television as many times as they can.