It's like everyone I have dinner with, I'm having an affair with. Who was it I met the other day? Minnie Driver! She seems charming, but that's the only time I've met her.

People are so brainwashed by the rules that they don't know what really matters.

Lose your dreams and you might lose your mind.

Don’t take life too seriously and always remember: it is just a passing fad.

It's all right letting yourself go, as long as you can get yourself back.

There's no absolutes in life - only vodka.

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

A good thing never ends.

I'd rather be dead than singing "Satisfaction" when I'm forty-five.

You can't always get what you want, but if you try sometimes, you might find, you get what you need.

Don't you think it's sometimes wise not to grow up.

A funny thing about women and machines: the combination made men curious. They seemed to think it had something to do with them.

I am trying to make art that relates to the deepest and most mythic concerns of human kind and I believe that, at this moment of history, feminism is humanism.

I kind of like that thing of you being caught up. You think you can judge someone, and before you know it, you've been swayed by them, and actually you want more of them.

You can get really far by putting your ideas out there and letting other people build on them.

But if I could go back in time, I wouldn't do a single thing differently. What if all those things I did were the things that got me here?

What is a thousand years? Time is short for one who thinks, endless for one who yearns.

Schooling is so important.

As critical acclaim and response has built up, every interview I give is a chance to puncture the myth I've created about my work and refine it.

Love knows no right or wrong. Love is. Only is.

I believe in Darwin and God together.