What my parents never considered is that I just wanted a choice.

The more you know who you are, and what you want, the less you let things upset you.

For the two of us, home isn't a place. It is a person. And we are finally home.

You ought to stop listening to stereotypes and start forming your own opinions.

How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

I don't believe in fashion. I believe in costume. Life is too short to be same person every day.

Everyone makes mistakes. The important thing is to not make the same mistake twice.

Life isn't about what you get, it's about what you DO with what you get.

I wish friends held hands more often, like the children I see on the streets sometimes. I'm not sure why we have to grow up and get embarrassed about it.

Just because something isn't practical doesn't mean it's not worth creating. Sometimes beauty and real-life magic are enough.

A blank canvas...has unlimited possibilities.

Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people.

Being dogmatic and close-minded are not virtues.

The recipe for perpetual ignorance is: Be satisfied with your opinions and content with your knowledge.

I took two important phone calls while in the shower today because I'm a goddam professional.

I am irrevocably committed to being permanently indecisive.

Everyone focuses on the earthly state, but how cool might death be? I believe in spiritual rebirth, and I can't wait to experience that.

I hope to see more programming, more shows, more actors of mixed ethnicity, more young kids of mixed ethnicity choosing to be in the entertainment industry.

A poor man who eats too much, as contradistinguished from a gourmand, who is a rich man who ''lives well.''

With spots of sunny openings, and with nooks To lie and read in, sloping into brooks.

I was appointed Poet Laureate. It came totally out of the blue because most Poet Laureates had been considerably older than I. It was not something that I even had begun to dream about!