It's a very frightening time when something as basic as due process is seen as somehow radical.

The more you expose yourself as a celebrity, the less interesting you are to watch in your work, because if you're putting yourself out there all the time, you're not holding anything back.

Being on a movie set is like one long financial crisis.

Do I listen to pop music because I'm miserable or am I miserable because listen to pop music?

Hitler was so modern, in that he was obsessed with being famous. He was caught up with this rush to be have achieved greatness before turning 30.

Texas women have an amazing sense of purpose when they lose it. They're the best girls in the world - they're loyal and fun, but when they get mad, they'll try to kill you.

I've seen the people who talk about their love lives in print invariably have doomed relationships with the person they're talking about.

A lot of people are not meant to be together.

I force people to have coffee with me, just because I don't trust that a friendship can be maintained without any other senses besides a computer or cellphone screen.

Maybe the absence of signs is a sign.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

Where there is great love, there are always miracles.

I think poverty is not the worst thing in the world, blindness is, because blind people cannot see your beauty.

I do not want to be like a small animal bitten by a snake, going stiff with that poison. I want to bite back.

Ignorance breeds antipathy. Until I got to know how computers worked, I didn't want anything to do with them. I said, 'Well, why do I need them? I write letters.' Which I still do.

What do you think, I was born at 60?

Wondrous strong are the spells of fiction.

If your mind is tired, go get work in the fields!

There is great difference between trust and belief. Trust is personal, Belief is social.

On the other side of the fear live your possibilities.

When people say a knight's job is all glory, I laugh and laugh and laugh. Often I can stop laughing before they edge away and talk about soothing drinks.