It's my party and I'll cry if I want to.

Sunshine, lollipops and rainbows, everything that's wonderful, Is sure to come your way

I just kind of lived my life naturally and did what I wanted to do.

Really you just gotta keep chugging along and keep a positive attitude and get through all the problems. You gotta face them, otherwise you don't get through.

You can only bite off so much, so you gotta know what you want to do.

Don't tell me what to do, don't tell me what to say. And please, when I go out with you, don't put me on display.

And I thought, you know, a little gender confusion makes a better person. A little adversity in life at an early age. It's character building.

One night I saw them kissing at a party, so I kissed some other guy. Johnny jumped up and hit him, cause he still loved me, that's why.

And that's what got me to the piano, that's what got me up in the morning: a blank piece of paper and a hope to have something by the end of the day.

I think the record industry, by and large what's left of it, is still totally homophobic. I think it's much less so in the film industry now, but the record industry, it's always been a man's world.

I think I turned to writing really just to wake up in the morning and be a musician and to have something to do, and feel like a musician every day even if I wasn't working.

As humans, we unconsciously embrace the group’s beliefs and behaviors without questioning them or surrender to their opinions.

Dialogue with the self is the source of all insight and insight is the only thing that can change your life.

Without doubt, the mightiest thought the mind can entertain is the thought of God, and the weightest word in any language is its word for God.

Raillery is a mode of speaking in favor of one's wit at the expense of one's better nature.

I write a book at least three times-once to understand it, the second time to improve the prose, and a third to compel it to say what it still must say.

Being a professional woman, I function the best when I don't distinguish between work and play.

The television anchorman Dan Rather turns up in rag-top native drag in Afghanistan, the surrogate of our culture with his camera crew, intrepid as Sir Richard Burton sneaking into Mecca.

Now Republicans are a more interventionist party than they have been at any time since George W. Bush left office.

That which dominates our imagination and our thoughts will determine our life and character.

FlashForward was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked like, one day a week, and it paid the same as Happy Endings. I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.