I'm afraid of the dark, so I have a lot of night-lights.

And I think women have come a very, very long way, but they have a long way to go.

I had so many freckles that my mother used to say that they were kisses from the angels. I still have them.

As soon as you get over caring what people think, you can have a nice time.

I spent every day just praying that I didn't look like a big dork on camera.

Sometimes when you're just thrown into something, you are more ready for it than when you have time to think it over and get nervous about it.

I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.

She comes from the Midwest. She had me at a very young age and raised me on her own. She's a very hard worker.

Being Irish was a big thing for me, particularly growing up in Chicago.

I love children and I love men, but I can't commit to either for the rest of my life.

That's what the holidays are for - for one person to tell the stories and another to dispute them. Isn't that the Irish way?

Love is like pi - natural irrational and very important.

Technology is both a tool for helping humans and for destroying them. This is the paradox of our times which we're compelled to face.

Strange are the ways of history, where no single thing abides, but all things flow into each other, fragment to fragment clinging.

Her voice was now so shrill only bats would be able to hear it soon, but she had reached a level of indignation that rendered her temporarily speechless.

Really, contrary to popular belief, I like to have a good time and not take myself too seriously.

You can pick your friends, and you can pick your nose, but you can’t pick your friend’s nose.

I hated school right away. Religion had a lot to do with it because I felt like everybody was always lying to me.

Fame is a delicate and dangerous creature; I saw people who didn't honor it, who refused to take responsibility for it, get destroyed by it. I also saw that stardom in and of itself was empty.

Faith is not Desire. Faith is Will. Desires are things that need to be satisfied, whereas Will is a force. Will changes the space around us.

Real friends tell you the truth...even when you want them to shut up.