I wish I played an instrument, but I could never decide which one, and I ended up playing nothing.

And you must dare to do as many things as you dream of.

I love oldies just kind of sweet, slinky, Fifties music. The slow stuff. And Billie Holiday.

Water for me is so essential, like swimming.

Water is always a support or a healing thing apart from, you know, love or peace of mind.

I dislike PASSION FLOWER HOTEL so much I wish I had the money to buy it up and burn it.

I have these visions of myself being thirty, thirty-five, forty having a family.

I live for being with the people I love and to live as happily as possible.

It's true what people say - that actors are the closest thing there is to children. They play.

But when it really happens I'm very fascinated, I'm waiting for the moment, because the moment where life abandons you and death steps in, that moment must be fantastic, no?

You can learn so much from children, and you can give them so much.

In writing, there is art. And in art there is craft ...

::I am yours, beloved. As you are mine. For all of eternity…::

I'm getting old, thought Eileen Calder. Old and worn out and cynical. And being cynical is a lot worse than being old or worn out.

I was always a junk food person, still am.

Let it go on record that any confusion arose simply because we lacked certain commonalities of reference.

When it comes to letting people marry whomever they love, Mitt Romney says, "No."

Why should we tell kidnappers, murderers, and embezzlers their rights? If they don't know their rights, they shouldn't be in the business.

You have no choices about how you lose, but you do have a choice about how you come back and prepare to win again.

If you do something very successful, you will then be defined by it.

All I can say is that I'm getting married in the future. I've narrowed it down to that.