If his relative success hadn't made him happy, it had, on average, made him less unhappy.

He had a bad habit of initially zeroing in on one or two things he liked about every new girl he found himself interested in, as if to justify his attraction.

But human beings are like that, she thought. We've replaced nearly all our emotions with fear.

Our glass train, on fragile tracksBeneath bombs that fall like the floodTo wash away the shards—But all this sorrow will recedeAnd we will leaveTwo by twoAnd until then, I will only think of you.

You get used to sadness, growing up in the mountains, I guess.

I hate cameras. They interfere, they're always in the way. I wish: if I could work with my eyes alone.

When Bill Clinton assembled the top minds of the nation to discuss the economy in 1992, no one mentioned the Internet.

I always feel that there's no violence in a movie - it's not real, it's a magic trick. Nobody is really dying. In fact, the people that die in my movies have gone on to become extremely successful!

I remember my comic strips being called "new wave." It bugged me.

I am a really bad test taker. I can get straight As in school, but I get nervous on test.

There is only one will and that is the Will of Fire. The will that doesn't let you give up

It felt like strappy sandals were looking really old lady-ish; really dated and not cool.