Los Angeles is not a town full of airheads. There's a great deal of wonderful energy there.

Give me a window and I'll stare out it.

I have a love-hate relationship with white silk.

If you could build a house on a trampoline, that would suit me fine.

I get stage fright and gremlins in my head saying: 'You're going to forget your lines'.

I've never been able to plan my life. I just lurch from indecision to indecision.

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

I suppose with any good writing and interesting characters, you can have that awfully overused word [...] - a jouuuuuurney.

It would be wonderful to think that the future is unknown and sort of surprising.

Talent is an accident of genes - and a responsibility.

Any actor who judges his character is a fool - for every role you play you've got to absorb that character's motives and justifications.

As history of any kind will tell us, when human beings get an opportunity to express their individual selves, a few selves will go completely over the top.

What is certainly true is that the United States has to have a presence to promote the values that we care about.

The only time that I've adopted characterization again since that point, for my own albums, has been an album called "Outside" that I did with Brian Eno.

Garrison Keillor read several of my poems on 'The Writer's Almanac' and I've heard from listeners nationally and internationally. That's one of the great gifts of email.

I don't believe in dying. It's been done. I'm working on a new exit. Besides, I can't die now - I'm booked.

You have to decide if you're going to wilt like a daisy or if you're just going to go forward and live the life that you've been granted.

Today's child is growing up absurd, because he lives in two worlds, and neither of them inclines him to grow up. Growing up--thatis our new work, and it is total. Mere instruction will not suffice.

I spend a lot of time obsessing about getting a dignified eight hours' sleep.

The great thing is that the funny side of getting old is fuel for my comedy.

It reveals that people are confusing." Rovender corrected her. "Not Confusing. Complex.