This life is mine because of good luck. And because I reached out and took it.

It's like swimming, underwater, this whole year. I just close my eyes. hold my breath, and keep kicking.

You could push people away, past their limits, even accidentally, and then it was just too late to get them back

Worrying was painful .... but compared to the alternative, a privilege

I am supposed to be where I go.

I always found Louise Brooks interesting. She was an icon of the silent - film era, and I knew she'd grown up in Kansas, and that she was smart and rebellious and sharp - tongued.

This is how it is now. This is my life.

Someone needs to give the Pope thirteen babies. Just for a week or so. See how he likes no birth control then.

I wasn't that familiar with silent films. I didn't know, for example, how hugely popular silent films were in the 1920s, how people would go to the movies several times a week.

One way to remain unfinished is to stop. the other is to go on.

Yes, Louise Brooks was beautiful and intelligent, and she could be very funny, but obviously there was a deep insecurity there, a real destructive rage and immaturity.

Traveling down a road of self-destructionWith no room for any reconstruction

America's corporate and political elites now form a regime of their own and they're privatizing democracy. All the benefits - the tax cuts, policies and rewards flow in one direction: up.

The correct unit of study is not the play; it is the scene.

I didn't know it would be black," she murmured with a little smile. Horror flooded his face. "Oh, Christ!

I don't read other science fiction. I don't read any at all.

We will not have any more crashes in our time.

I just like to be under the radar and concentrate and do my job.

There is something in us that keeps us where we find ourselves. I think this is the most awful thing of all.

I hope it never becomes normal to feel scrutinized.

I always stay in the urban comedy genre because it just never gets old. It's one of those things that people watch, again and again. This is that kind of movie. It gives you longevity.