To write drama is to leave a can of Coke by the side of the road. Then, sit on that can of Coke. Where's the can of Coke now?

I think anything that anyone writes thats any good is going to have a lot of autobiography.

I had just done something in TV, but my real love is theater. I had won this award and I was up at Yale, and I was happy because it came with money.

Don’t let your disease become your identity.

It is easy for anybody to call himself or herself a “Christian” but the truth is we respond from very different world-views

Freedom was the price of privacy.

The Athens Olympics will be meaningful even though I cannot participate as an athlete, since I can participate in the flame relay all over the world.

If I win, I don't want to broadcast to the enemy exactly what my plan is.

Perhaps to be able to learn things quickly isn't everything. To be kind is worth a great deal to other people...Lots of clever people have done harm and have been wicked.

Within each of us there is a silence as vast as the universe. We long for it. We can return to it.

I'm just more into playing golf. It's a great thing.

I came to America when I was seven and a half in 91. I think the first full length book in English that I read was Return to Oz when I was nine years old.

I don't think I have the assets to play the more traditional Bond Girl.