The lines we draw that make us who we are are potent by virtue of being non-negotiable, and even, at some level, indefensible.

Reason leavened with a little wit (if possible) is the real alternative to hate speech, meaning that there's no better time for it.

I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.

Just breathing can be such a luxury sometimes.

Art, art of any kind, shows that folks are trying.

Everyone loves a witch hunt as long as it's someone else's witch being hunted.

Love is a powerful painkiller.

Sometimes, when a person is truly lost in this world, suffocating inside her private bubble where all she can hear is her own droning heartbeat, a touch can be enough.

The market is the only critic that matters.

The most beautiful faces have some ugly in them.

Some strangers become more important to you than family, maybe because you're not expected to love them. You can leave them whenever you want to. They can, too. Every moment together is a choice.

The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.

We all have music inside us and can learn how to get it out one way or another.

You need better technique than I have to play jazz, but what you have to do is the same thing, isn't it?

Movies are terrifically optimistic enterprises.

I don't want to go into a fridge at an undertaker's. I want you to keep me at home until the funeral. Please can someone sit with me in case I get lonely? I promise not to scare you.

Geography blended with time equals destiny.

One man's insanity is another man's genius; someday the world will recognize the genius in my insanity.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

You must walk alone to find your soul.

Cinema affects everything, from the way I get dressed to how I build my stages.