In L.A., the only thing within walking distance is your car.

Bad guys do what good guys dream.

It's not enough to do good. You have to be seen doing good.

Beauty, brains, and a complete psycho. My dream girl.

I write about power, that's my real subject - how you get it, what you do with it, how you abuse it. I'm equally wary of liberals and conservatives.

Torture injures everyone who comes into contact with it and corrodes the country that abides it.

Justice is a jagged road.

The more I know, the less I sleep.

Nobody's reasonable when they're in love. That's the whole point of it.

I'm sympathetic to the decent and hapless footsoldier into whose lap falls the unenviable duty of carrying out fubar policies.

If you're going to play stickball in Canarsie you better learn Brooklyn rules.

Nothing exists but my breath. I know this feeling. Usually it comes when something unexpected and momentously awful is about to happen, which doesn’t make sense now. I’m just going home.

There is music in words, and it can be heard you know, by thinking.

I’m Emma. I’m here to make you see the meaning of your life.” Her exalted words were totally conquered by her dragging tone and lack of eye contact.

A woman is always buying something.

For me it was a lot harder to come to terms with the death of my grandfather than it was to come to terms with what's happened to the former Yugoslavia.

The hardest thing to do is to be true to yourself, especially when everybody is watching.

Where did all these damn Indians come from?

I shut myself off to make life bearable. I'm like a damn machine sometimes. Unfeeling. Uncaring. Emotionless.

If a composer could state in words what being a composer means, he would no longer need to be a composer.

I come from a family of tall, curvy women. I developed in my body and my shape far earlier, so from a young age I accepted it. I embraced it and saw it as an advantage.