The perfect shorts are always important.

I have always been interested in art but had no formal training or experience. It's always been just what I liked, my eye for art.

It's important to me to just experience as much as possible and to be able to just work and meet new people and have different experiences and have as much knowledge as I can.

I love scary movies, but I'd never really even seen The Vampire Diaries, up until I met [Kevin Williamson].

For me, being a girlboss is about being the boss of your own life. At 26 I still don't know what's happening in my life, but I'm asking, What will make me happy next?

I have a lot of girlfriends who are struggling out there to find good men.

I never talk about auditions. Even if I've got the role, I won't tell people until we're literally filming it.

Honestly, I love television. I love the idea of going to work every day and getting to know your crew and having a rapport with your directors and having a family of cast.

I think everyone has their own version of romance like and I think everyone has their own romantic side.

I love to continue acting. It's my passion.

Be assertive, but don't forget to look around. I realized there are other opinions that can be more useful to me than just sticking to my guns.

It's tempting to believe that a break from life's routine will only cause chaos. But regimen does not ensure security. The only constant we can count on is change.

At the fall, we became alienated not only from God and other people but also from ourselves.

The message was that... fathers can go ahead and have children, but they don't have to raise the children.

Allen [ Ginsberg] was a particular friend, one of my heroes, really. I knew him almost as long as I've been writing.

Personally, I find it romantic not to be with someone all the time; you don't get used to someone or take them for granted.

A person's true wealth is the good he or she does in the world.

The problem with incompetence is its inability to recognize itself.

Once you adopt and communicate a quality policy, stick with it, live it, and protect it. You get only one chance!

Never insult seven men when all your packing is a six-shooter.

I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.