It's really wonderful to be able to be nobody, and then have a moment when I can be somebody, and then go right back to being nobody again.

Im going to be shaking my booty when Im 55.

I wish I had appreciated my youth - I should have worn tighter clothing when I could have!

For your kindness, I'm in debt to you. For your selflessness, my admiration.

Poetry comes alive to me through recitation.

I've raised my daughter with no television.

TV holds a close second to cars for destroying our society. It's a failed experiment.

I don't want to live in a culture of despair. I'd like to live in a culture of hope.

Life is sweet, life is also very short.

The research phase was really fascinating - I'm not a closeted nerd, I'm an out-of-the-closet nerd.

Have I been wrong? Have I been wise to shut my eyes?

We know your secret.And we won’t be made invisible.

If only I had something to take the edge off the loneliness. If only lonely were a more accurate word. It should sound much less pretty.

The world is generally multivariate

I think of the security of cages. How violence, cruelty, oppression, become a kind of home, a familiar pattern, a cage, in which we know how to operate and define ourselves.

You are going around on the wheel again and again. You go around and around from lifetime to lifetime. You never quite wake up. Enlightenment is waking up.

You're only responsible for your own actions. You can't control how someone else reacts to what you do. You made a choice. Stand by it.

When I grow up, I still want to be a director.

Sorrow can be alleviated by good sleep, a bath and a glass of good wine.

True humor springs not more from the head than from the heart. It is not contempt; its essence is love. It issues not in laughter, but in still smiles, which lie far deeper.

We sacrifice to dress till household joys and comforts cease. Dress drains our cellar dry, and keeps our larder lean.