There was a weird, innate kind of understanding between me and Christina (Ricci). A psychic told us we were sisters in a past life.

I don't know what my version of a relationship or marriage is yet, because the typical model seems a little broken to me.

I like to do weird things in the shower, like drink my coffee, brush my teeth and drink a smoothie. It's good time management.

I don't believe that life is linear. I think of it as circles - concentric circles that connect.

I want to be like water. I want to slip through fingers, but hold up a ship.

Everything's connected, and everything has meaning if you look for it.

Listen, I've always been very headstrong.

Is there anything better than making a kid laugh?

I love things that are old and beautiful and tell a story, even if it's a sad one.

There was a sense of being taken on a journey by the grandmaster of the road trip. You feel this weird angel taking you somewhere. You don't know where, but you trust him.

Because whatever I feel inside, it has a place to go. It just saves me over and over and over again.

You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.

The greatest obstacle to liberty is not the existence of evil rulers, but the belief in the existence of good rulers.

Sweetie, you don't need to drive me to the brink of insanity... I'm close enough to walk!

Love yourself.Love who you are.

And on some level it walways felt like kids paying at being grown

don't live to regret the things you never said

It's easier to do comedy with an audience, because their reactions tell you whether or not what your saying qualifies as comedy.

Purity is innocence, the innocence of lack of self. Desire is innocent unless it's connected with self.

Going off the road just leaves me more time to be a writer.

I haven't spoken to Oprah herself. She had so much going on, since her network show was wrapping up at the time we were shooting. I can't fault her for that.