This was another item about growing up: you encountered all the cliches of love and loss and heartbreak.

I plan to learn enough to read you like a book.

No wonder you want to be a writer. How can you not, with all that behind you? You practically are a novel already.

It could not always be love in the afternoon and passion in the night, gifts given, notes written, meals fed to each other. It can't all be like that.

Those who are apparently absent can feel more present than the people right in front of you.

Soon he would be able to touch her, to feel the warmth of her blood. When the time came, nothing would stop him.

Make sure you keep an inner state of flexibility, and are not tightly bound to your visions.

What a terrible world it would be if we only did films that were poster boards for political causes.

Not exactly smashing stereotypes of liberals as mincing pantywaists, the left's entire contribution to the war effort thus far has been to whine.

I think it's very sad, when Barack Obama lands in Saudi Arabia, and he lands in Cuba, and there aren't high officials to even greet him.

Women shouldn't be burdened by what existed in their past, we should all learn how to turn pain into strength.

Other networks seek to interfere with the natural process of chaos. Enlightenment is chaos, complete beyond conception

No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly.

Let go of who's right and focus on what's right

I'm picky, very picky. I wanted to be an actor since I was nine years old, and I figured that was only one way to ever have any longevity, and that's to be careful about what kind of work you do.