I was never interested in being an overly public person.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

A true piece of writing sets you free.

One of these days, I won't have a painful deadline! That's a lie, I probably always will.

Stand at the crossroads if you will, but if you'll not choose, I'll move on without you

Pride is the mother of arrogance.

The Bible and the Church have been the greatest stumbling blocks in the way of women's emancipation.

Nice costume," he said. "Ditto. I can tell you put a lot of thought into yours." Amusement curled his mouth. "If you don't like it, I can take it off.

Imagination is essential and it comes first, for without imagination we are aimless.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

There's so much that I want to do. I feel like I'm the Magic Johnson of rap. You know, Magic was great on the basketball court, but he's bigger as a businessman.

I'm a very safe person, probably to the extreme.