I think everybody has the ability to fall in love with a man or with a woman or a white person or a black person or a Jewish person or a Protestant person or whatever.

My experiences have taught me a lot and I'm happy with my learnings, if not with what I went through to learn.

When you grow up, your heart dies.

Hollywood is the definition of sexual discrimination.

I have the desire to work as an actress, but I have no ambition to be a star.

The fact is, I can have any experience of life I want. I don't have to choose any one thing or act in any one way to define myself as a woman now. I am one.

But the fact is, nobody gets off drugs unless they really want to, and I really wanted to.

It is worth it to me to know I have succeeded based on my abilities and not on my looks or any 'connections.' I've tried not to embody destructive female images in my work.

I think that acting involves doing your job so well that you are able to help the viewer identify with the character.

Everybody likes to gossip. But it can be a little scary to have people knowing secrets about me when I don't know anything about them. It's not exactly a two-way street there.

I was excited to do something, even if I didn't know what it was. I think you need that feeling—that excitement, that fire—to make your dreams a reality. (p.59)

The eternal spacecreates the temporary spacesand anti-spacesfor zero.

Dear IRS, I am writing to cancel my subscription. Please remove my name from your mailing list.

Print neatly. That's the kind of advice that the IRS considers a "dynamite" tax tip. If you ask them a real tax question, such as how you can cheat, they're useless.

All his leisure clothes were absurd - jokes, really - as though leisure itself had to be ridiculed.

I was told once that the most important part of a fight is making sure your opponent looks worse than you do when you’re through.

You need to be able to confide in people.

My state has the highest child poverty rate in all of New England, above the national average.

Measured against eternity, our time on earth is just a blink of an eye, but the consequences of it will last forever.

Too soon did the doctors of the church forget that the heart--the moral nature--was the beginning and the end, and that truth, knowledge, and insight were comprehended in its expansion.