I think Mulder is the worst FBI agent in the world. He spends millions of dollars investigating these paranormal phenomena and never comes up with any evidence. He's the Kenneth Starr of the FBI.

The key is to get to know people and trust them to be who they are. Instead, we trust people to be who we want them to be - and when they're not, we cry.

Every day I try to do breathing exercises, meditation, and yoga. These things sound awfully cliche, but they help me slow down and try to point to a truth.

I love dogs. They live in the moment and don't care about anything except affection and food. They're loyal and happy. Humans are just too damn complicated.

I lost my virginity when I was 14. And I haven't been able to find it.

Anxiety is part of creativity, the need to get something out, the need to be rid of something or to get in touch with something within.

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.

I may be learning guitar, but I'll never be able to sing.

I think the real heroic teachers are the ones who work with kids, like my mom and my sister do.

A dream is the mind's way of answering a question it hasn't yet figured out how to ask.

What makes me mad is arrogance, pretension, putting on airs.

The only skill that cannot be perfected is perfection itself.

That's what the cat said to the canary when he swallowed him - 'You'll be all right.

Drinking again? Go to hell. All I ever do is make some movies that made a lot of money now leave me alone, I want to have some fun.

Lack of genius never held anyone back. Only time wasted on resentment and daydreaming can do that.

My work is largely concerned with relations between seeing and knowing, seeing and saying, seeing and believing.

Feminism doesn't mean hating pink, make-up and high heels!

Just because we are back home, don't get comfortable. Have that same uptight feeling like it's just us against everyone.

It's just the easiest way to score a point.

If ever the church is to flourish again, one must begin by instructing the young.

Make your own music. It can be done.