I love to work. I love to have complexity.

We have to get back to the beauty of just being alive in this present moment.

We never know all the facts and the more we're mindful of how we deal with people, the more opportunity we have to evolve.

I think that in a general sense, the idea of getting comfortable with the truth in life is uncomfortable.

For me, as an actress, one of the most essential things that I need to know is what do I want for and from the people around me in the story.

It's really important for actors to feel that they're more than something for hire.

The Cylons are such a frightening concept - not knowing who is real. No way.

It is really wonderful for me to understand that there are times in life when your job, and the excellence of your job, requires to not be - have the comfort zone of being popular.

I love the idea of a woman being able to discover the idea of power this way, on such a scale. And I don't know about that, what it means - well, I guess I'd better, or my part's in trouble.

I love books, by the way, way more than movies. Movies tell you what to think. A good book lets you choose a few thoughts for yourself.

We have little power to choose what happens, but we have complete power over how we respond.

A writer's job is done once the lines touch reader's forbidden chords.

Purity or impurity depends on oneself, No one can purify another.

Fighters before a fight, they shouldn't get riled up.

I found marriage somewhat stifling. I don't know that I am the kind of man who ought to be married.

Don't get discouraged because there's a lot of mechanical work to writing. I rewrote the first part of Farewell to Arms at least fifty times.

Am I the only one who has wood over that little vixen?

Monogamy and prostitution go together.

It's better to gather in righteousness than fellowship with darkness.