This Christmas, every Christmas, Santa Claus is everywhere and Jesus is nowhere to be found.

The way to art was not to think too clearly, not to plan things out, but to follow where your heart and emotions led.

Corruption hates what is not corrupt.

We all have strategies to distract ourselves from what we cannot bear. Memory, for example, serves such a function.

Every character in a story, I thought when I had folded up the phone, has both a purpose and a secret purpose.

And you’re disappointed in the story. I know you wanted a love story.

There’s nothing cruel about a vampire or a parasite, she said.

That’s why it’s difficult to write about your own life. Any distortion feels like a betrayal.

Why should I trust you? We haven't drunk from the same bowl of soup.

I'm hoping one day to open my own shelter. I would be the person with the three-legged dog. I just love animals more than people; I really do.

I can't bear looking in the mirror - I guess that's why my hair looks like this.

Pilates introduced me to muscles I never even knew I had. Soon I started to feel longer and leaner. Ten years of Pilates has really changed my body for the better.

As an athlete, I was never really comfortable with being a celebrity.

I do not believe there is any important difference between men and women - certainly not as much as they may be between one woman and another or one man and another.

I'm happier. I guess I made up my mind to be that way.

Donald Trump has shown that he will essentially attack individuals, make Second Amendment jokes.

That's what yoga teaches: how to be fully present now, no matter the circumstance.

Maybe you won't find a place where you fit in for a very long time, but you eventually will.