Perhaps you're not crazy, but you're very creative.

Sometimes we have to run away from ourselves in order to find ourselves.

Our parents don't know us... They can't know us. We hide ourselves from them. Once they knew everything about us and in order to escape them we keep out secrets, our private selves.

Why does naming a thing give it so much power?

We don't need to talk. We need to love.

Sometimes when daughters have a bad-girl mother, they rebel and become good girls. They are constantly embarrassed by me!

..I learned that there's a kind of love which must feel like coming home, ...

You know what he taught me? He taught me to feel more. He taught me to give myself over to feelings. And now that's all I have. I'm swamped by them. I can't breathe because I feel so damn much.

They're all true. They all could have happened.

this was not the end of the world, actually it was the world.

It's absurd to be upset by a lack of results when the cause is a lack of activity.

My grandmother was a church organist, but we only went on Easter and Christmas Eve sometimes.

I've actually stopped tinting my windows because the paparazzi look for trucks and cars with supertinted windows.

Now let's get talking: reefer madness. Like some arrogant government can't, By any stretch of the imagination, outlaw a plant.

When you empty yourself of the illusions of who and what you think you are, there is less to lose than you had feared.

I spent 11 years at 'The Daily Show,' and I learned everything there about how to write funny, how to write funny on topic.

Bravery in simple soldiers is a dangerous trade, to which they have bound themselves to get their livelihood.

When I fall in love I take my time There's no need to hurry when I'm making up my mind You can turn off the sun but I'm still gonna shine and I'll tell you why.

The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.