...wherever there is society, there is authority and the temptation to disobedience because our individual wills refuse to submit...

...some nights I'd sneak out and listen to the radio in my Dad's old Chevy - children need solitude - they don't teach that in school...

...the wet brush of snowflakes was like your kisses everywhere ...

...no good writing flows from a polluted well - you can write about monsters, but you can't be one...

...I don't just wish you rain, Beloved - I wish you the beauty of storms...

...true love is an irrevocable act - you can only give your heart away once - after that, you give as much as you have left ...

...you think so logically...like a hawk soaring - I feel so chaotically...like a kite without a tail plummeting to earth...

...you fantasize about me reading my poems to you - it doesn't work that way - I write down everything later - living is not an after-thought...

...if you always move in certainty, your writing will be flat - creativity is a rugged terrain...

...is worship too strong a word? yes, I worship you - to worship is to give worth to something – isn’t that what love is all about?...

...art is weaker than life - in the end I have a bag of letters to scrabble into order - rune tiles to cast my fate...

A fool's mind is at the mercy of his tongue and a wise man's tongue is under the control ofhis mind.

There is nothing wrong with America that faith, love of freedom, intelligence, and energy of her citizens cannot cure.

I'm a believer in the ordinary person, that the ordinary person is just as important and has an equally unique perspective on the world as someone who is famous or perhaps more privileged.

Liberals have managed to eliminate the idea of manly honor. Instead, all they have is womanly indignation.

How can love survive in such a graceless age? The trust and self assurance that lead to happiness, they're the very things we kill.

I don't think every movie should be made in 3-D, and it should depend on whether it's one of these films that's more immersive or needs to be taken to another world. I'm interested in other formats.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

People aren't defined by their relationships. The whole point is being true to yourself and not losing yourself in relationships, whether romances or friendships.

I could make Basic Instinct 16. If guys will keep thinking I'm hot, I might turn it into a TV series.

As a kid, this is what I wanted my life to be. Not in my wildest dreams did I ever dare to dream that it would be this.