If you actually want something and are really passionate about it, you will get it no matter what.

Facts, like living things, have a value in and of themselves and demand respect. Yet some people use them as means to an end, and dismiss them as soon as they are done using them.

Arguments about language are usually arguments about politics, disguised and channeled through one of our most distinctive markers of identity.

If we were fossils of two snails caught in a rock for millions of years.Would we know we were together?

If we possess narrative sympathy - enabling us to see the world from other's point of view - we cannot kill. If we do not, we cannot love.

Perhaps, in the end, only those who really made us laugh can really make us cry.

I'm not super comfortable in my skin. I have to make it work for me, and that usually amounts to making it uncomfortable for everyone else.

You cannot hear music and noise at the same time.

For better or worse, I take my acting seriously. I may not have been in the best movies ever made, but I take it deathly serious, and I love being an actor.

You went up a girl and came down a woman.

Through true love, you touch inner completeness.