So to compare your real life, or your partner or lover or whoever to a character in a movie, you're setting yourself up for disappointment. They don't map.

Even today, in our progressive times, in most movies that come out, the men have to have biceps and the women have to be thin or something.

My dad never blew anything up, but he probably had friends who did. He and my mom have always preached that the pen is mightier than a Molotov cocktail.

It's less about what you do and more about who you are doing it with.

Media used to be one way. Everyone else in the world just had to listen. Now the internet is allowing what used to be a monologue to become a dialogue. I think that's healthy.

If you're going to put yourself above everybody else, you might end up alone.

The Sun is such a lonely star. Whenever he comes out to see his friends, they all disappear.

The most valiant thing you can do as an artist is inspire someone else to be creative.

If you know which way the current is going, you can use it to your advantage.

The Internet is allowing us to get back to what's really more natural, which is that storytelling is a shared thing. It's our natural way to be communal.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

Our fatal mistake is waiting to be motivated before we take action. Action motivates.

That's how you should be. Accept your burden and carry it, with joy.

Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's not realistic, and it's also not wise.

'Catcher in the Rye.' I feel like any brooding teen loves that book.

It's sad how people want to see us females go against each other. Never been for that. Never will.

Marriage is but slavery made to appear civilized.

Jim Bakker spells his name with two k's because three would be too obvious.

Technically speaking, there is no music whatsoever on a CD. Lots of information, but no music.

When you have a spirit of excellence, you do the right thing not because somebody is watching or making you do it; you do it because it's the right thing to do.

We need Hawaii just as much and a good deal more than we did California. It is manifest destiny.