There is nothing in this world that I am prouder of than my ability to feel, to survive and, yes, to be a fool for what I love and believe in.

Part of me longs to do a job where there's not a gray area.

It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.

I already did my coming out about a thousand years ago, back in the stone age.

Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.

Being understood is not the most essential thing in life.

I've always had this idea that I wanted movies to make people better not worse.

Love and respect are the most important aspects of parenting, and of all relationships.

Let how you live your life stand for something, no matter how small and incidental it may seem.

Privacy above all else. Some day, in the future, people will look back and remember how beautiful it once was.

Knowing what paint a painter uses or having an understanding of where he was in the history of where he came from doesn't hurt your appreciation of the painting.

Courage is feeling fear, not getting rid of fear, knowing something is more important than fear and taking action in the face of fear.

Hell freezing over? I don't know. But the devil's definitely wearing a sweater.

City people. They may know how to street fight but they don't know how to wade through manure.

It is much easier to do and die than it is to reason why.

Both within the family and without, our sisters hold up our mirrors: our images of who we are and of who we can dare to be.

Sometimes cameras and television are good to people and sometimes they aren't. I don't know if its the way you say it, or how you look.

Great fear, conformity, immorality: these are heavy burdens. They drain us of creative energy. And when we are drained of creative energy, we do not create. We procreate, but we do not create.

I love playing around with vintage fabrics and lace.

I am not stonewalling. I am following the historic policies of the Department of Justice.

Oh, to be in England now that April's there.