I vote in every general election, but I'm not a party member or an ideologue. I've never told anyone who I've voted for.

I don't, for the record, have a Tweety Bird fetish.

More than anything else, we need in this society the opportunity for people to tell us what they think without being told that they're either dumb, or stupid, or uninformed.

It's easier to fix damage than it is to create it.

It's very nice to be able to write something you don't have to get four other people to agree with before it can become authoritative.

I've never been a member of a political party, but people will superimpose on you what they want.

Who cares if a movie star has an opinion unless the person is very well informed?

Some people when they get older are so firm in their beliefs that you'll never move them.

I'm anti-big power. I don't know if that's populist or not.

You will come away bruised.You will come away bruisedbut this will give you poetry.

I can't stop obstacles from occurring, but neither can they dare to interrupt my peace of mind or stop me from moving forward.

I really enjoy writing about female friendship. It's an endlessly interesting dynamic for me.

Experience, they say, is the best teacher, but we get the grade first and the lesson later.

Inside my empty bottle I was constructing a lighthouse while all others were making ships.

Everything that you see here, in other words, is a reflection of a higher reality.

Everything passes. There is great beauty in this, both in the passing of pain and in the passing of pleasure. When things present themselves to you as permanent, don't believe it.

The corporatization of the press really has hurt the press.

Yeah, it’s me, but I like to think I looked better when we met. ‘Cause right now, I’m pretty much hogging all the ugly. (Nick)

We must protect the right of our opponents to speak because we must hear what they have to say.