If you're authentic, people smile because they sense there's a piece of themselves there.

I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

If I've learned one thing in life, it's: Stand for something or you'll fall for anything.

When you fail by your own standards, it's a form of success.

I think families are so great, because when you go home, no matter what you've accomplished in your life, you still are the person you were in sixth grade to them. You know, it never really changes.

Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.

But I'm thrilled to be employed, and to work with all my friends and people that I admire. You're just lucky to work - that's the bottom line.

Just 'cause there's snow on the roof doesn't mean there's not a fire inside.

Would I like to be the lead girl? Who wouldn't?

Humor is very healing.

I don't know if I realized that I was funny, but I realized how healing and important humor was in my childhood.

knowledge depends on the mode of the knower

You think you're funny? I think I'm adorable.

Like Petrach's, my books know infinitely more than I do, and I'm grateful that they even tolerate my presence. At times I feel that I abuse the privilege.

I just want to be as regular, and get by with doing the least amount of publicity, but still look really cool, you know? And get a bit of respect.

I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Your hurt swallows ine, like space swallows time, and the two intertwine. We tangle together.

Everybody is teaching Everybody to Love at every moment.

Hatred is keener than friendship, less keen than love.

To play the piano is to consort with nature. Every mollusk, galaxy, vapor or viper as well the sweet incense of love's distraction, is within the hands and grasp of the pianist.

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.