When somebody is that patient, you have to feel grateful, and then you want to hurt them. Does that make any sense?

Don't you think it's better to be extremely happy for a short while, even if you lose it, than to be just okay for your whole life?

The pain has left but I know that it has not gone far, that it is sulking somewhere in a corner or under the bed and it will jump out when I least expect it.

There is only one page left to write on. I will fill it with words of only one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

It's hard being left behind. (...) It's hard to be the one who stays.

Listen, sometimes when you finally find out, you realize that you were much better off not knowing.

Sleep is my lover now, my forgetting, my opiate, my oblivion.

I won't ever leave you, even though you're always leaving me.

Love the world and yourself in it, move through it as though it offers no resistance, as though the world is your natural element.

It’s dark now and I am very tired. I love you, always. Time is nothing.

we both smile and we are conspirators.

Studies find that kids who are punished are more likely to misbehave in the future. Punishment actually increases the undesired behavior.

Caesar might have married Cleopatra, but he had a wife at home. There's always something.

Those of us who don't have a party affiliation ought to be able to register under the heading "Confused.

It's important in show business to have friends who understand the cut and thrust of everyday working life and the constant rejection.

I do a movie once every four years and they call it a comeback.

Sometimes people's careers take off on their first albums, sometimes they don't.

If you ever get a war without blood and gore, well, I'll be the first to go.

Just because we have success in the moment, it doesn't mean anything.

I feel that by writing I am doing what is far more necessary than anything else.

I'm definitely close to Jen [Lawrence]; we're like sisters on set. Every day, she hugs me three times before she leaves, and does little things that are really sweet.