In all honesty, it’s just time for me to move on with my life. Lord knows he moved on with his, Rala replied

Memories and emotions could be the greatest form of torture.

I guess I could drive myself crazy trying to figure out why he left me but I can’t, all I can do is move on, Parisa replied, the words came out smoother and easier than she expected.

Her mind is an unquiet one, words and thoughts and impulses constantly crashing into each other.

You have to be in movies that make money to be offered work. Basically that's the equation. There's no real way around that. That said, you don't ever make decisions solely for that reason.

There is no greater mercy that I know of on earth than good health except it is sickness, and that has often been a greater mercy to me than health.

Spring ... made fair false promises which summer was called upon to keep.

I remember my boyfriend and I had just broken up, and I was like 'I don't care how much it costs, I'm getting my hair bleached!' That's really when everything changed.

If you are going to try to go to war, or to prepare for war, in a capitalist country, you have got to let business make money out of the process or business won't work.

I don't do the whole L.A. nightlife thing.

This kid came up with Napster, and before that, none of us thought of content protection.

When I went on Fox News people asked me why I was going on those shows. Are you kidding? You have to go, especially to people you don't agree with.

I didn’t care about anything except her and the way touching her drove me wild, even as her calm and steady presence soothed the storms that raged within me.