My mom said I was a handful. Now I'm helpful.

To maintain an ignorance of oneself, is to grieve for the absolution of life.

I felt the water rising enough to touch my Vans. She was worth ruing a pair of shoes over.

The price of metaphor is eternal vigilance.

You've got to be ready for everything. When it comes to everyone's opinion, that's what you've got to go through.

Girls Scouts taught me to succeed (cookie selling) and to fail (knot tying) and to learn and benefit from both.

I was able to capture on film things the actors didn't even know they were doing.

Sometimes we have to be hard on ourselves. We've got to get on our case, if we are being sloppy, lazy, and indulgent.

There is in government a living impulse to extend itself indefinitely; and there is in freedom a necessity to resist that impulse.

You must leave this world a better place than it would have been if you had not existed.

all children blackmail their parents with their innocence.