I have a good friend who's a Texas girl; Texas girls are a whole different breed.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

A particularly difficult line to navigate is the one between fear and love, especially for parents, who want more than anything to protect their children from suffering.

Where are you?” she whispered. “Have you abandoned us?”..."Listen, little Songkeeper, " the voice whispered, and I will sing you a Song.

Outside of the family, education is the greatest determinant of social mobility.

Rejection would be a disaster for the U.S., but ratification alone will not end our problems in Iraq. Even if the constitution is ratified, the insurgents are not going to lay down their arms.

It should not be an act of social disobedience to light a cigarette. Unless you're actually a doctor working at an incubator.

Tonight I am going with my wife to a Democratic party, where we're going to...try to be happy.

Two are born to cross their paths, their lives, their hearts. If by chance, one turns away, they are they forever lost.

The meat and poultry industries are outstanding industries, and it's going to be a very natural fit for me.

The eye goes blind when it only wants to see why.

We have plenty of room for people...in our lives, I mean. Especially the ones who make us be the people we want to be.