When I was young, I wanted my appearance to be more interesting than what surrounded me. Now the body part I like best is my eyes, because they bring beauty to me.

Just have fun. Smile. And keep putting on lipstick.

I never understood the idea that you're supposed to mellow as you get older. Slowing down isn't something I relate to at all. The goal is to continue in good and bad, all of it.

Memories are simply moments that refuse to be ordinary.

This living stuff is a lot. Too much, and not enough. Half empty, and half full.

A sense of freedom is something that, happily, comes with age and life experience.

I don’t think that because I’m not married it’s made my life any less. That old-maid myth is garbage.

Humor helps us get through life with a modicum of grace. It offers one of the few benign ways of coping with the absurdity of it all.

Even though all these obstacles keep coming at you, you just have to keep going through them. Because it's worth it to do something in your life, as opposed to fantasizing about doing something.

Why black and white? Because color can be too demanding.

I'm a hoarder. For me, documentation has always been key, and I've kept everything from my past.

Anything that lights your world leaves it dark once it's gone.

The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil rather because of the punishment that it brings than because of its own foulness.

It is wise to turn circumstances to good account.

When you get there, there isn't any there there.

In the comics, Supergirl is quite, um, buxom...so I hope people won't come to the film expecting that.

For me, returning to Los Angeles annihilates the memories of where I have just been with an astonishing speed.

To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual practice of small duties which are distasteful to us.

There exists no more democratic institution than the market

Influenza pandemics must be taken seriously precisely because of their capacity to spread rapidly to every country in the world.

We are all, after all, just human beings, and most of us have a lot in common.