One thing that has gone away from civil discussion in America is this idea that our neighbors are not out to ruin the world. We need to come at it from a civil place.

The script is a bible and it's this unchangeable document that somebody spent years and years on.

It's not just politicians who underestimate us; we underestimate ourselves.

I find it very hard to believe that people would prefer an awkward picture with me than a normal conversation.

You only live once. Trying to do the right thing for other people often doesnt work out, and you have to follow your own path in order to make things work out best for everyone.

True badassery has no gender.

We need to organize and figure out our own voice as a bloc and stop doubting ourselves.

When women are in positions of power it's a hard place to be, especially when that position involves bossing men around.

The biggest thing about growing up in Canada is you know that Los Angeles and New York are not the only places in the world. They're not the only places where brilliant acting happens.

I guess the biggest world difference you can make is in people's relations to their own emotions, 'cause emotions rule so much of our daily life, and I think that's where we work.

I don't have any trouble believing that you would avoid something seemingly perfect because you're in something you really want to prove to yourself you can do right.

There’s no such thing as a good or bad person: there are just people who have each been or seem to have been good or bad to you, someone, or some people, thus far.

Many have exchanged the touch of God for the applause of men

You want to be there for me but an anxiety attack is a solitary activity.

It's fun to invent systems and meanings and then poke holes in them.

There is only one large circle that we march in around and around each of us with our own little picture-in front of us-our own little mirage that we think is the future.

As you become more conscious of your body as eternity, a sense of ease, a fullness beyond description occurs.

Light and shadow are opposite sides of the same coin. We can illuminate our paths or darken our way. It is a matter of choice.

Whom God loves, his house is sweet to him.

I do hope that some of my dissents will one day be the law.

The taste for worst-case scenarios reflects the need to master fear of what is felt to be uncontrollable. It also expresses an imaginative complicity with disaster.