I love the fact I grew up wanting a brother and now I have four.

Life is funny. Things change, people change, but you will always be you, so stay true to yourself and never sacrifice who you are for anyone.

Smile doesn't mean that someone is happy. Sometimes it just means that you're strong.

If people talk behind your back, it's because you're ahead of them.

Loving someone who doesn't love you is like waiting for a ship at the airport.

No matter how many times people try to criticize you, the best revenge is to prove them wrong.

Life isn’t a music player where you choose whats being played, it is a radio where you have to enjoy whats being played.

It doesn't matter how much you flirt the whole day, at night you'll always end up thinking about the one you truly love.

No matter how hard life is, don't lose hope

Just close your eyes and enjoy the rollercoaster that is life :)

Just because you don't have a prince, doesn't mean your not a princess.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

the centre is missing, but we cannot stop searching for it or positing it. It is not that there is nothing there - it is that what is there is not capable of exercising responsibility

Literature does not occur in a vacuum. It cannot be a monologue. It has to be a conversation, and new people, new readers, need to be brought into the conversation too.

Never confuse the size of your paycheck with the size of your talent.

I left my parents' home when I was 22, I moved to New York with my ex-girlfriend. We did a film together with Raul Julia.

What you try to become is a bringer of magic, for magic and the truth are closely allied and movies are sheer magic ... when they work, it's, well, it's glorious.

I have lived in the monster and I know its insides; and my sling is the sling of David.

I remember becoming aware of women's issues and inequality. It became glaringly clear to me when I was living in America that women are regarded as less intelligent than men.

You have to adhere to a certain morality, a certain level of decorum, or else you'll be punished and labeled.

You've got to learn to leave the table When love's no longer being served".