I've had some marvelous parts, but I'm also asked to play characters who are kind of superficial people.

It's interesting, I had absolutely no maternal instinct. I'm much more interested in young people now.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

I always did think I would be married and settled down by now but maybe I ain't ready.

I just never was the marrying kind.

I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any.

I love playing someone who just skates by and does anything she wants.

I've never written a play before, and I'll never write one again. You can quote me.

I've often played very strong, flashy, kind of inadvertently mean women. I am not that way in my real life.

It took a long time to get to the place in my career where I could pick and choose what I wanted to do.

I've always had a hunger for realizing myself through my career.

I never minded the random scribblings of other readers, found them interesting in fact. It is a truth universally acknowledged that people write the darndest things in the margins of their books.

You are one and only creator of your reality. Even when you might think there is some external force out there creating it for you, it is just you.

Jesus, Jess, it would be nice if you stayed out of life-and-death scenarios for five minutes.

I exaggerate. I oversimplify. I generalize. But there’s no cynicism here. American poetry is a mess. Long live American poetry.

These are rules I've picked up along the way to help me remain invisible when I'm writing a book, to help me show rather than tell what's taking place in the story.

What that situation really needed was a little eyebrows.

For me, I want to create a environment for the songs to live in. So one song by itself only tells a piece of the story, but in the context of the album, more of the colors are revealed.

It's like the panda, they say that's dying out. But what do they do? When you see them they're just sitting in the jungle eating.

Everybody has their own ways of wanting to do things.

I, as a human, do not become the power or love or wisdom of God; I merely contain Him who is all these, and everything.