In Houston everyone owns guns and uses 'em - sometimes just for the hell of it.

No matter what it is, pick yourself up and go on to the next project

I'm one of those people who thinks you can have a happy life and still be an artist

Take events in your life seriously, take work seriously, but don't take yourself seriously, or you'll become affected, pompous and boring.

The world doesn't end just because one thing goes wrong.

Pigs are not that dirty. And they're smart, strange little creatures. They just need love.

I like to pick my own vegetables.

I felt little awkward about taking one boyfriend to see a film starring another boyfriend.

I'm not afraid of aging.

Making it big in this world is such a rip-off, you gotta keep your head together or it can be totally without meaning

But I never let a fantasy get away, because I always stop to analyze it.

There is no elegance in this existence, nor grace in our lives. There is nothing poetic about feasting on blood that spills from torn flesh...

The best way of increasing the [average] intelligence of scientists would be to reduce their number.

See people for who they're becoming. Not who they were.

I'm a really good team player. That's what it takes to work in the theater. That's what it takes to work in a band with musicians and writers.

Athletics keeps us healthy, gets us up and running around. It also gives you an opportunity to meet a lot of different people, which is very important.

Cheating love is just as real as un-cheating love.

This nation asks for action, and action now.

But sure there is need of other remedies than dreaming, a weak contention of art against nature.

Of all the things that make for happiness, the love of books comes first. No matter how the world may have used us, sure solace lies there.