I've done a lot of pilots. A lot of shows. You're young and you do a job just because you know someone gave you a job.

The rule of surfing is never tell anyone where you go.

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis.

My mom used to wear the fragrance Poison when I was younger, and I remember that scent and the purple bottle. That was my first [perfume] memory.

You have to fight for what you need to fight for.

Memories are just stories we tell ourselves about our past; and that's often why they don't match when we've shared the same experiences with someone.

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I've never directed anything before 'Mad Men,' so I don't feel I have any advice for the other directors.

My wife tells me I need to learn to be more patient with my son.

The good thing about directing yourself is that you get over yourself.

I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.

The sum of things to be known is inexhaustible, and however long we read, we shall never come to the end of our story-book.", 3 October 1892)

I don't worry about new young bands. The bounty of life is infinite and so is music and so are opportunities.

No nation keeps its word. A nation is a big, blind worm, following what? Fate perhaps. A nation has no honor, it has no word to keep.

Plot a murder, you're saying. But every plot is a murder in effect. To plot is to die, whether we know it or not.

History shows that people often do cast their votes for amorphous reasons-the most powerful among them being the need for change. Just ask Bill Clinton.

I don't come in with any preconceived ideas, and although I will have done some preparation, I can go which way the director wants.

If two equally qualified persons apply for a job at a workplace with few immigrants, the one called Mohammed should get the job.

What I understand about this concept of why is that it functions exactly the same way as parenting or exercise or any of these things we claim to invest in.

(Her last words) Oh! I love Him! My God, I love You!

I hate journalists. There is nothing in them but tittering jeering emptiness. They have all made what Dante calls the Great Refusal. The shallowest people on the ridge of the earth.