She hated her job the same way I hated my jobs because she knew she was worth more, but she also hated herself so there wasn't much point in trying to do better.

Never give up on your dream...Perseverance is all important. If you don't have the desire and the belief in yourself to keep trying after you've been told you should quit, you'll never make it.

I don't like phones. You can't be sure people are paying attention to you when you're talking to them.

A man spends his whole life trying to prove his worth to others. A woman spends her life trying to prove her worth to herself.

I wanted to end it now, like a bad TV show turned off in the middle.

They were like English teachers who took the fun out of a perfectly good book by breaking it down into themes and sentence structures

I've decided that the worst part of loneliness isn't being alone. It's being forgotten.

He doesn't comment on any of the music I play: Sonny Rollins followed by AC/DC followed by the Broadway score from My Fair Lady.

When people's faith in the collective intelligence increases, falls to the same extent their own individual sense of responsibility.

Oh, do not read history, for that I know must be false.

John [Lasseter] always said that he was Andy, and Joe [Ranft] and I were Sid, and I think that's true.

I'm raising a child, and it's public. The media creates these dramas, and that's not what's happening in my life.

Will is not unfrequently weakness.

The flower doesn't dream of the bee. It blossoms and the bee comes.

Even if you are divine, you don't disdain male consorts.

In order not to suffer, you had to renounce love. It was like putting out your own eyes in order not to see the bad things in life.

You remember our talk about purpose and meaning?" he asked me, the smile disappearing. "Well, I think this might be mine. I think this is what I was meant to do, Georgina.

It's about communication, no matter how impossibly hard your art is to understand and how much of an ivory tower or high horse you get on, it's still basically communication or why are you doing it?